red-hot

See also: red hot

English

Alternative forms

• red hot, redhot

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒt

Adjective

red-hot (comparative more red-hot, superlative most red-hot)

1. Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.

   The smith's apprentice was still wary of manipulating the red-hot metal.

   • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-And Second Tale of Scheherazade:

     Among this nation of necromancers there was also one who had in his veins the blood of the salamanders; for he made no scruple of sitting down to smoke his chibouc in a red-hot oven until his dinner was thoroughly roasted upon its floor.

   • 1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth:

     The cat heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain.

2. (hyperbolic) very hot

   that curry was red-hot

3. Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.

   He really delivered a red-hot speech today.

4. Having a very strong sexual appeal.

   Did you see that red-hot picture of Liv Tyler in today's paper?

5. Very fresh, exciting, and up-to-date.

   Tune in at ten to catch this red-hot story!

   • 2021 September 1, Taylor Lorenz, “She’s the Investor Guru for Online Creators”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     She sits at the intersection of start-up investing and the fast-growing ecosystem of online creators, both of which are red hot.

Related terms

• firehot
• red heat

Translations

heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color

• Bulgarian: нажежен до червено (nažežen do červeno)
• Dutch: roodgloeiend (nl)
• Galician: roxo (gl)
• German: rotglühend (de)
• Icelandic: (glowing red) rauðglóandi m, (figurative, flaming hot) eldheitur m
• Italian: rovente (it)
• Maori: miramira
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rødglødende

• Russian: накалённый докрасна́ (nakaljónnyj dokrasná)
• Spanish: al rojo vivo (es), candente (es)

very hot

• Galician: roxo (gl)
• Greek: καυτός (el) (kaftós)

emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm

• Bulgarian: разгорещен (bg) (razgorešten), пламенен (bg) (plamenen)
• Icelandic: blossandi m, eldheitur m
• Russian: пла́менный (ru) (plámennyj)

having a very strong sexual appeal

• Bulgarian: силно възбуден (silno vǎzbuden)

very fresh, new, recent and up to date

Noun

red-hot (plural red-hots)

1. (dated, US) Alternative spelling of red hot

See also

• white-hot

Anagrams

• dehort