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h/c

h/c is the initialism of hot and cold.

h/c is the initialism of hurt/comfort.

Meaning of hot and cold

Adjective

hot and cold (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.
    • They went hot and cold about the proposal for a whole year, before finally saying no.

Meaning of hurt/comfort

Noun

hurt/comfort (uncountable)

  1. (slang) A genre of fan fiction in which a character receives comfort from another after or while suffering injury, illness, or a traumatic experience.
    • Hurt/comfort stories often contain enough gore to send shivers down the back of activists concerned with the conflation of sex and violence.1993, Cynthia Jenkins, "Menage a Deux", SBF 3, November 1993 (quoted in Henry Jenkins, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture, New York University Press (2006), page 84)
    Synonyms:
    h/c

Adjective capitalized: H/C

H/C

  1. Alternative letter-case form of h/c.

Forms of h/c

alternative formH/C

Questions about h/c

What is h/c the initialism of?
H/c is the initialism of hot and cold.
What part of speech is h/c?
H/c is an adjective.

Words near h/c in the dictionary

  1. h.q.
  2. H.R.
  3. H.R.H.
  4. H.Res.
  5. H.S.H.
  6. h/c
  7. H/G
  8. H/H
  9. H/Hr
  10. h/o
  11. h/t

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Adapted from Wiktionary: h/c (page history and authors); H/C (page history and authors); hot and cold (page history and authors); hurt/comfort (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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