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red-hot

(rĕd′hŏt′)

adj.

1. Glowing hot; very hot.

2. Heated, as with excitement, anger, or enthusiasm: a red-hot speech.

3. Very recent; new: red-hot information.

1. See hot dog.

2. A small, usually round red candy strongly flavored with cinnamon.

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red-hot

adj

1. (esp of metal) heated to the temperature at which it glows red: iron is red-hot at about 500°C.

2. extremely hot: the stove is red-hot, so don't touch it.

3. keen, excited, or eager; enthusiastic

4. furious; violent: red-hot anger.

5. very recent or topical: red-hot information.

6. slang Austral extreme, unreasonable, or unfair: the charges are red-hot.

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red′-hot′

adj.

1. red with heat; very hot.

2. violent; furious: red-hot anger.

3. characterized by or creating intense excitement or passion.

4. very fresh or new: a red-hot tip on the stock market.

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Adj.	1.	red-hot - having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" luscious, voluptuous, juicy, toothsome sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"
	2.	red-hot - newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot information" hot new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"
	3.	red-hot - characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues" sizzling hot - extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument"
	4.	red-hot - glowing red with heat 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; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"
	5.	red-hot - very fast; capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports car"; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start"; "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive" blistering, hot fast - acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"

red-hot

adjective

1. very hot, burning, heated, steaming, searing, scorching, scalding, piping hot red-hot iron

2. (Informal) exciting, inspiring, sensational (informal), electrifying the red-hot guitarist

3. (Informal) passionate, thrilling, sexy, arousing, titillating a red-hot sex life

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red-hot

adjective

1. Marked by much heat:

ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid.

2. Fired with intense feeling:

ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, scorching, torrid.

3. Of great current interest:

live.

Informal: hot.

Translations

red-hot

[ˈredˈhɒt] ADJ

1. (lit) [iron, poker] → candente

2. (fig)

2.1. (= up to the moment) [news, information] → de última hora

2.2. (= very sharp) [cardplayer, tennis player etc] → de primera categoría

2.3. (= very popular) → muy de moda

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red-hot

[ˌrɛdˈhɒt] adj → arroventato/a, rovente

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red

(red) noun, adjective

1. (of) the colour of blood. a red car/dress / cheeks; red cheeks; a red car/dress / cheeks; Her eyes were red with crying.

2. (of hair or fur) (of) a colour which varies between a golden brown and a deep reddish-brown.

3. (a) communist. Red China; A lot of his university friends are Reds.

the Red Army

the army of the former USSR.

ˈredden verb

1. to make or become red or redder. to redden the lips with lipstick.

2. to blush. She reddened as she realized her mistake.

ˈreddish adjective

slightly red. reddish hair.

ˈredness noun

ˈredcurrant noun

a type of garden bush grown for its small red fruit.

ˈredhead noun

a person with red hair.

red herring

1. something that leads people away from the main point in a discussion.

2. a false clue or line of enquiry.

ˌred-ˈhot adjective

(of metal etc) so hot that it is glowing red. red-hot steel; This iron is red-hot.

Red Indian

a North American Indian.

red-letter day

a day which will always be remembered because of something especially good that happened on it.

red tape

annoying and unnecessary rules and regulations.

be in the red

to be in debt.

catch red-handed

to find (a person) in the act of doing wrong. The police caught the thief red-handed.

see red

to become angry. When he started criticizing my work, I really saw red.

red-hot

a. muy caliente, candente.

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At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens.

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As the fish would not come off the plate, they put it into the red-hot crinkly paper fire in the kitchen; but it would not burn either.

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"Take a red-hot poker to him!" my Lady again chimed in.

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In a large and lofty building, supported by pillars of iron, with great black apertures in the upper walls, open to the external air; echoing to the roof with the beating of hammers and roar of furnaces, mingled with the hissing of red-hot metal plunged in water, and a hundred strange unearthly noises never heard elsewhere; in this gloomy place, moving like demons among the flame and smoke, dimly and fitfully seen, flushed and tormented by the burning fires, and wielding great weapons, a faulty blow from any one of which must have crushed some workman's skull, a number of men laboured like giants.

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A baby, overcome with curiosity concerning this object at which all were looking, sidled forward and touched her dress, cautiously, as if investigating a red-hot stove.

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We never cared any thing about ice-cream at home, but we look upon it with a sort of idolatry now that it is so scarce in these red-hot climates of the East.

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Then she added with a pitiless expression, well aware that she was about to pierce the priest's heart with thousands of red-hot irons,--

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Further still, even regarding the velocity to be acquired, and granting it to be sufficient, the shell could not resist the pressure of the gas developed by the ignition of 1,600,000 pounds of powder; and supposing it to resist that pressure, it would be less able to support that temperature; it would melt on quitting the Columbiad, and fall back in a red-hot shower upon the heads of the imprudent spectators.

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Pip, there are about seven hundred thieves in this town who know all about that watch; there's not a man, a woman, or a child, among them, who wouldn't identify the smallest link in that chain, and drop it as if it was red-hot, if inveigled into touching it."

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Naseby, for we are too well aware of the consequences; but we shall venture instead to print the facts of both cases referred to by this red-hot partisan in another portion of our issue.

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Perhaps, as the two men walked side by side, some faint foreshadowing of the future showed to Trent another and a larger world where they two would once more walk side by side, the outward differences between them lessened, the smouldering irritation of the present leaping up into the red-hot flame of hatred.