red-hot Definition
red·-hot (red′hät′)
adjective
- hot enough to glow; very hot
- very excited, angry, ardent, etc.
- very new; current red-hot news
noun
Informal a frankfurter; hot dog
red-hot Synonyms
red-hot
modif.
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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