hotdog

Variant of hot dog

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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