RED-HOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red-hot mean? 

• RED-HOT (adjective)
  The adjective RED-HOT has 5 senses:

1. having strong sexual appeal

2. newest or most recent

3. characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement

4. glowing red with heat

5. very fast; capable of quick response and great speed

  Familiarity information: RED-HOT used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED-HOT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having strong sexual appeal

Synonyms:

juicy; luscious; lush; red-hot; toothsome; voluptuous

Context example:

a toothsome blonde in a tight dress

Similar:

sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Newest or most recent

Synonyms:

hot; red-hot

Context example:

red-hot information

Similar:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement

Synonyms:

red-hot; sizzling

Context example:

sizzling political issues

Similar:

hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Glowing red with heat

Similar:

hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Very fast; capable of quick response and great speed

Synonyms:

blistering; hot; red-hot

Context example:

a red-hot line drive

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

 Context examples 

Ever keener and sharper was the deadly pain which shot like a red-hot arrow through his side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We need red-hot men who will never rest satisfied.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the time she got cleared up, the dinner arrived and the stove was red-hot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I pitched it in red-hot on purpose; and before the hour's out, as he said, we shall be boarded.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a hot California night, and though the windows were thrown wide, the room, with its red-hot ironing-stove, was a furnace.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One realised the red-hot energy which underlay Holmes’s phlegmatic exterior when one saw the sudden change which came over him from the moment that he entered the fatal apartment.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But when he had made away with these two, and was about to sit down again by his fire, out from every hole and corner came black cats and black dogs with red-hot chains, and more and more of them came until he could no longer move, and they yelled horribly, and got on his fire, pulled it to pieces, and tried to put it out.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

While I sat thus, looking at the fire, and seeing pictures in the red-hot coals, I almost believed that I had never been away; that Mr. and Miss Murdstone were such pictures, and would vanish when the fire got low; and that there was nothing real in all that I remembered, save my mother, Peggotty, and I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He is a man of fifty, strong, active, with iron-grey hair, great bunched black eyebrows, the step of a deer and the air of an emperor—a fierce, masterful man, with a red-hot spirit behind his parchment face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)