hotdog

Variant of 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

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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