hot stuff n.1
(US)1. spiced rum, strong alcohol.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Southern Literary Messenger Apr. 217: Cave [...] refreshing himself with about a pint of hot-stuff, rose. | |
| Daily Trib. (Bismarck, ND) 23 Oct. 4/1: Liquor is [...] ‘hot stuff.’. | |
| Tales of the Ex-Tanks 236: The switch from beer to the hot stuff made me so cautious. | |
| Bottom Dogs 137: A pimp [...] wanted to know on the sly if he wanted some hot stuff for only two bucks a shot. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Letters of Irish Parish Priest 34: The housekeeper had a notorious tooth for the hot stuff [...] As close as he watched it the whiskey began to disappear. | |
| Bodhrán Makers 162: Only for the regular dose of the hot stuff [...] there is no way I would stay on course. | |
| Love Bites and Other Stories 10: Of course we all knew what the hot stuff was. |
2. coffee.
| Wash. Times (DC) 5 Oct. 5/5: Another cup or two of coffee, or ‘hot stuff’, as the prisoners call it. | |
| ‘Vocab. of Bums’ in AS IV:5 341: Hot-stuff—Coffee. | |
| Amer. Lang. (4th edn) 582: Coffee is hot-stuff, mud or embalming-fluid. |