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hot stoves

hot stoves is the plural of hot stove.

Meaning of hot stove

Noun

hot stove (plural hot stoves)

  1. A relatively low-powered kitchen appliance used in lieu of a proper stove.
    • You can try boiling water for that spaghetti on the hot stove, but it might take a few hours.
  2. A hotplate.
  3. A stove with a hot element.
  4. (broadly, figuratively) Any potentially harmful situation.
  5. (attributive) The baseball off-season where trades take place and teams look to sign free agents.
    • the hot stove report

Questions about hot stoves

What is hot stoves the plural of?
Hot stoves is the plural of hot stove.

Words near hot stoves in the dictionary

  1. hot stepping
  2. hot steps
  3. hot stove
  4. hot stove league
  5. hot stove leagues
  6. hot stoves
  7. hot streak
  8. hot streaks
  9. hot stuff
  10. Hot Sulphur Springs
  11. hot swap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hot stoves (page history and authors); hot stove (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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