RED HOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red hot mean? 

• RED HOT (noun)
  The noun RED HOT has 1 sense:

1. a frankfurter served hot on a bun

  Familiarity information: RED HOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED HOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A frankfurter served hot on a bun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

hot dog; hotdog; red hot

Hypernyms ("red hot" is a kind of...):

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

Meronyms (parts of "red hot"):

dog; frank; frankfurter; hot dog; hotdog; weenie; wiener; wienerwurst (a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll)

frankfurter bun; hotdog bun (a long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red hot"):

chili dog (a hotdog with chili con carne on it)

 Context examples 

I thought, between sleeping and waking, that it was still red hot, and I had snatched it out of the fire, and run him through the body.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And all the time, as we were pitching it in red hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could for they were as wild as harpies.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And there's Andy, a stone- mason, has ideas on everything, a good chess-player; and another fellow, Harry, a baker, red hot socialist and strong union man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The huge stove roared red hot and white hot, while the irons, moving over the damp cloth, sent up clouds of steam.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)