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hot dog definition

hot dog

  1. Informal a frankfurter or wiener, esp. one served hot in a long, soft roll, with mustard, relish, etc.
  2. Slang an exclamation used to express delight

Etymology: orig. (?) so called (c. 1900) by T. A. Dorgan, U.S. cartoonist (died 1929), prob. in allusion to pop. notion that the sausage was made of dog meat

hot-dog definition

hot·-dog (hätdôg′)

intransitive verb hot-dogged -·dogged′, hot-dogging -·dog′ging

Slang to perform, esp. in sports, so as to attract attention; show off

Etymology: < hot dog (sense )

noun

Slang a person who hot-dogs; showoff

adjective

Slang designating a form of freestyle skiing that involves acrobatics
Also hotdog hot′·dog′

Related Forms:

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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