hot v.1
1. (also hot up) to tell off, to reprimand.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | DSUE (8th edn) 573: 1920s. | |
| What They Was 53: Obviously man hotted her up for wasting our time. |
2. (Irish) to beat.
| (con. 1930s) Teems of Times and Happy Returns 98: I don’t want to go to school. The nun’ll hot me for not havin’ any money for the black babies. |
In phrases
1. to excite sexually.
| Burglar to the Nobility 162: I won’t pretend she couldn’t hot me up like a blowlamp. |
2. to unmask, to cause trouble for.
| in Living Dangerously 29: I can hot them [i.e. the police] up if they’re under cover. |