hotter

English edit

hotter

hotter (plural hotters)

(UK, slang) One who steals a vehicle in order to joyride.
- 1992, David P. Waddington, Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder, page 209:
  Unable effectively to give chase to the hotters for fear of endangering the lives of pedestrians and motorists, the police had been forced to play a waiting game […]

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Particularly: “From *huttōną?”

hotter (third-person singular simple present hotters, present participle hottering, simple past and past participle hottered)

(UK, dialect, Northern England, dated) To vibrate; to rattle.
- 1833, Thomas Sopwith, An account of the mining districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham, page 137:
  The jolting, hottering motion of the waggon, the splashing of the water, and the dark and narrow passage, all concur to produce a strange effect […]

hotdog +‎ -er

hotter

Declension of hotter