hot-doggery

Noun

hot doggery (countable and uncountable, plural hot doggeries)

1. (countable) A hot dog shop.
   • Back there in the rolling, olive-clad hills is a splendid region of whose existence most of the visitors to the Riviera are unaware. There are no garish restaurants or casinos, no hot doggeries or Slopsy-kola signs, no half-naked women or twitching varicose veins being paraded.1960, Stephen Lister [pseudonym; Digby George Gerahty], chapter 12, in In Search of Paradise, London: Peter Davies, →OCLC, page 162
2. (slang, uncountable) The behaviour of a hot-dogger, or sporting show-off.
   • Just this week, the bearded Ozzie Smith was told not to shave, but to stop doing acrobatic backflips before baseball games. Ozzie only does this once in a while, and no one seems to consider his behavior any sort of hot doggery.1986 March 3, Mike Downey, “Next, They’ll Tell Magic Not to Smile”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2026