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hot-takey

hot-takey adjective: prone to issuing hot takes.

Adjective

hot-takey (comparative more hot-takey, superlative most hot-takey)

  1. (informal) Prone to issuing hot takes.
    • We aren't super hot-takey, and do our best to cover the team accurately and honestly — while also including a fair bit of snark toward our rivals, and celebrating victories passionately.2019, September 3. Alexis Chassen, "Welcome to Bleeding Green Nation!" SBNation.
  2. (informal) Reminiscent of a hot take: boldly opinionated, but lacking in insight, originality, or thoughtfulness.
    • Instead, the biggest bones Villanovans ought to pick with this hot-takey article is the (1) arbitrariness by which the author levels critiques of the restaurant's accessibility, and (2) how the author twists said accessibility into nothing more than a "trap [for] impressionable teens."2019 November 19, T.J. Reed, “Letter to the Editor: In Defense of Minella's Main Line Diner”, in The Villanovan

Forms of hot-takey

comparativemore hot-takey
superlativemost hot-takey

Origin of hot-takey

From hot take + -y.

Questions about hot-takey

What does hot-takey mean?
Hot-takey means prone to issuing hot takes.
What part of speech is hot-takey?
Hot-takey is an adjective.

Words near hot-takey in the dictionary

  1. hot-swap
  2. hot-swappable
  3. hot-swapped
  4. hot-swapping
  5. hot-swaps
  6. hot-takey
  7. hot-tempered
  8. hot-to-trot
  9. hot-trod
  10. hot-tub
  11. hot-tubbed

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