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red-hot Definition

red·-hot (redhät)

adjective

  1. hot enough to glow; very hot
  2. very excited, angry, ardent, etc.
  3. very new; current red-hot news

noun

Informal a frankfurter; hot dog

red-hot Synonyms

red-hot

modif.

  1. Burning

    heated, sizzling, scorching; see burning 1, hot 1.

  2. Zealous

    heated, impassioned, fanatical, eager; see enthusiastic 2, excited.

  3. Raging

    vehement, violent, furious; see extreme 2, intense.

  4. Newest

    latest, most recent, hippest*; see fresh 1, modern 1.

red-hot Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • blade: Instead of changing the conditions, some are debeaked with a red-hot blade at 5 days old.
  • coal: Oh, yes, they want you to walk on red-hot coals.
  • iron: Small boys love plunging red-hot iron into buckets of water to temper them.
  • favorite: Likely line up United will once again start as red-hot favorites, especially with the Addicks squad ravaged by injury.
  • market: Further proof that the red-hot market shows no sign of cooling to the growing frustration of young locals.
  • issue: Red-hot cultural issues all ages joining us for begin to question.

Used with adjective complement

  • get: In the meantime extreme Nationalist feeling is getting red-hot on each side of the frontier.
  • make: These being heavy give weight to the iron, and when made red-hot are placed inside the iron for the purpose of heating it.
  • glow: Even so, the chimney glowing red-hot betrayed the heat work inside the kiln.
  • become: Surfaces can be animated too, so you could animate metal becoming red-hot for example.

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