hot dog
hot dog
Definition
☆ hot dog
noun
- Informal a frankfurter or wiener, esp. one served hot in a long, soft roll, with mustard, relish, etc.
- 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 (hät′dôg′)
intransitive verb -·dogged′, -·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
hot′·-dog′ger noun
hot-dog
Usage Examples
Object
- stand: One article described the drug culture, and how drugs were being sold from hot-dog stands.
- seller: The company's master carpenter, Bob Belsen, also found himself part of the action as the hot-dog seller.
- vender: Let's say you have a detective RPG and you want the player to interact with a hot-dog vender.
- salesman: They had encountered what seemed to Doyle's disbelieving eyes to be a hot-dog salesman in the middle of nowhere.
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