hot dog
UK/ˈhɒt.dɒɡ//ˈhɑt.dɔɡ/
hot dog noun: a sausage, typically a frankfurter.
Noun
hot dog (plural hot dogs)
- A sausage, typically a frankfurter.
- Don't forget to buy some hot dogs to grill and some buns to put them on.
- Hot dogs and beans are a traditional favorite.
- Synonyms:
- frankfurter, frank, frankfurt, wiener, weenie, glizzy, tube steak, pimp steak, red hot
- A food item (dish) consisting of a frankfurter or wiener and (usually) a hot dog bun, with toppings such as ketchup, mustard, relish, sauerkraut, onions, cheese, etc.
- He ordered a hot dog with everything on it.
- Synonyms:
- frankfurter, frank, frankfurt, wiener, weenie, glizzy, tube steak, pimp steak, red hot, dog
- A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing.
- A battered, deep-fried sausage or saveloy on a stick; a corn dog.
- Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a long rectangle.
- The penis.
- primarily verbal teasing from both male and female students, ranging from statements that the student had a "hot dog in her pants" and that she had "sex with hot dogs." to graffiti that "Jane is a hot dog bitch."1994, Sexual Harassment in Education, page 26
- It started in the fall of 1990, early in seventh grade, when two boys told her, "I hear you have a hot dog in your pants."
- girls were now making hot dog remarks. the counselor maintained—incorrectly—that he was powerless to stop it1995, The Guide to American Law Supplement, page 347
- Synonyms:
- wiener, anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack
- A sexually suggestive physical gesture involving movement of the hips.
- This gyrated gesture (“hot dog”) appears to suggest the movements of sexual intercourse to an onlooker, but for girls it's merely play. The movement is also, however, a way of learning to move one's hips in a way that will become useful, on and off the dance floor, in their embodied relations with...2006, Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop, page 98
Verb
hot dog (third-person singular simple present hot dogs, present participle hot dogging, simple past and past participle hot dogged)
Interjection
UK/ˌhɒtˈdɒɡ/US/ˌhɑtˈdɔɡ/
- An expression of delight or enthusiasm.
- He patted his lap for her to sit on. Hot dog, I said to myself; settin' on his lap!1954, Oren Arnold, The Golden Chair, Elsevier, page 249
- "Anybody with an alibi they can tell me?" I said. No one said anything "Hot dog!" I said.2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 140
- An expression of disappointment.
hot dog meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hot dog in Hindi
- frankfurter in a bun
- होट डोग hoṭ ḍog, हॉट-डॉग hŏṭ-ḍŏg
hot dog in Tamil
- காரச்சோமாரி, பன்றி இறைச்சி உணவு
hot dog in Marathi
- frankfurter in a bun
- हॉट डॉग hŏṭ ḍŏg
hot dog in Urdu
- frankfurter in a bun
- ہاٹ ڈاگ hāṭ ḍāg
More languagesFewer languages
- hot dog in Bengali
- হট ডগ hoṭ ḍog
- hot dog in Tagalog
- hatdog
- hot dog in Arabic
- هُوت دُوج
- hot dog in Malay
- hot dog
- hot dog in Indonesian
- hot dog
- hot dog in Thai
- ฮอตดอก hɔ́t-dɔ̀ɔk
- hot dog in Vietnamese
- bánh mì kẹp xúc xích
- hot dog in Myanmar
- ဟော့ဒေါ့ hau.dau.
- Dzongkha
- ཧོཊ་ཌོག hoṭ ḍog
Examples of hot dog in a sentence
- In the fall of 1990, when she was in the seventh grade, classmates spread the word that Doe had a hot dog in her pants.1999, Louis I. Gerdes, Sexual Harassment, page 118:
- But what it is basically the in and the out, the hot dog splicing through the doughnut.2012, Elias Sassoon, Hashish Dreaming:
- This gyrated gesture (“hot dog”) appears to suggest the movements of sexual intercourse to an onlooker, but for girls it's merely play.2006, Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop, page 98:
Synonyms of hot dog
Forms of hot dog
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hot dogs |
| alternative form | hotdog |
| alternative form | hot-dog |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hot dogs |
| present participle | hot dogging |
| past participle | hot dogged |
| past | hot dogged |
Origin of hot dog
From hot + dog, in reference to the supposed source of the meat, both in the senses of the food item (noun senses 1 and 2) and of a show-off (noun sense 3). First attested in 1884 in the Evansville (Indiana) Daily Courier.
Words formed from hot dog
Words that rhyme with hot dog
Questions about hot dog
- What does hot dog mean?
- Hot dog means a sausage, typically a frankfurter.
- What is hot dog in Hindi?
- Hot dog in Hindi is होट डोग (hoṭ ḍog), हॉट-डॉग (hŏṭ-ḍŏg). See Hot dog meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hot dog in a sentence?
- In the fall of 1990, when she was in the seventh grade, classmates spread the word that Doe had a hot dog in her pants.
- What part of speech is hot dog?
- Hot dog can be a noun, a verb or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce hot dog?
- Hot dog is pronounced /ˈhɒt.dɒɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hot dog?
- The plural of hot dog is hot dogs.
Words near hot dog in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hot dog (page history and authors); Hot Dog (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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