Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hot and heavy phr.

intense(ly).

1837		N.Y. Times 23 Dec. 2/7: Nothing was ‘too hot or too heavy’ for these [thieves].
1854		G.J. Whyte-Melville General Bounce (1891) 15: The wind suddenly shifted [...] and I knew then we should get it hot and heavy.
1887		G. Devol Forty Years a Gambler 21: We had it hot and heavy. I let the buck see my hand until it came to the draw, and then I shifted the hand.
1905		C. Chesnutt Colonel’s Dream 222: Then Bark hauled off an’ hit ’im. They had it hot an’ heavy for a while.
1906		S. Ford Shorty McCabe 25: The old man had routed Ase Homer out by the time we got there, and they was havin’ it hot and heavy.
1914		R. Lardner You Know Me Al (1984) 176: You should of heard me ball Florrie out when she got home [...] We had it hot and heavy.
1917		Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA) 2 Sept. 4/8: The argument in the thrummer-beer bar was thick and, fast. The returned soldier was rocking it in hot and heavy to a mob of racecourse vermin.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 155: If a fellow gave them trouble being lagged they let him have it hot and heavy in the bridewell.
1933		J. O’Hara ‘Straight Pool’ in New Yorker 16 Dec. 42/2: And then tonight when I come home, the same story over again. Cockeyed again. ‘What’s the idea?’ I said, and we had it out hot and heavy.
1941		Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 12 July 7/2: Billie Holliday and her heart warmer, Jimmie Munroe, had it hot and heavy outside of Kelly’s Stable the other night.
1956		‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 40: ‘A girl sees a guy she wants, so she goes after him hot and heavy; if she wants him bad enough, the sky’s the limit’.
1971		Current Sl. V:4 14: Hot and heavy, adj. Agressive [sic] and/or passionate (usually pertaining to sex).
1978		R. Caron Go-Boy! 123: Then it would really begin to get hot and heavy.
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 22: One night we’re listening to Alpha Company doing it hot and heavy, and they were getting down and getting some.
1993		E. Liebow Tell Then Who I Am 203: They were going at this hot and heavy, shouting at each other across the room.
2006		G.M. Kramer Indep. Queer Cinema 115: The night ends with a passionate kiss and the beginning of a hot and heavy affair.