hot dog
The definition of a hot dog is a frankfurter or wiener often served in a long soft roll.
(noun)A frankfurter you can buy at a baseball game or from a street vendor in New York that you eat in a long roll with ketchup and mustard is an example of a hot dog.
Hot dog is defined as slang for doing something special in sports to capture attention.
(verb)An example of hot dog is to do extra rotations while ski jumping.
See hot dog in Webster's New World College Dictionary
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- 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
Origin: 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
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intransitive verb hot-dogged, hot-dogging
Origin: < hot dog (sense )
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Related Forms:
- hot-dogger noun
See hot dog in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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noun- A frankfurter, especially one served hot in a long soft roll. Also called red-hot.
- Slang One who performs showy, often dangerous stunts, as in skiing or surfing.
Informal
intransitive verb hot-dogged hot-dogged, hot-dog·ging, hot-dogs
Slang
Related Forms:
- hotˈ-dogˌger noun
- hotˈ-dogˌging adjective & n.
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