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hot streak

hot streak noun: a run of exceptionally good luck or performance.

Noun

hot streak (plural hot streaks)

  1. A run of exceptionally good luck or performance.
    • Jace was on a hot streak at the casino, winning five times in a row on the roulette wheel.
    • The local collegians played the Trenton school on the foreign court two weeks ago, and after holding the lead through the game, the Trenton team got a hot streak in the last minutes of play and tossed several long shots through the ring for a 16-12 windup in the favor.1930 January 29, “Bucs to Play in Twin Bill Tonight”, in Moberly Monitor-Index, volume 11, number 179, Moberly, M.O.: Moberly Index Printing Company, →OCLC, page 6, column 1
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, streak.
    • A hot streak of flame passed, singing, close above O'Hara's ear.1903, Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle, Incomparable Bellairs, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 121

Examples of hot streak in a sentence

  • Wolf had a faster pump than a slot-machine player on a hot streak.1984, Stephen King, Peter Straub, The Talisman, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 225:
  • At about six in the morning, she hit a hot streak and her piles of chips began to grow.2012, Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 267:
  • You only have to watch a few basketball games to hear commentators mention a player as being "on fire" or having hot hand or hot streaks.2023 November 6, Kim McGrath, quoting Erik Nesson, “Q&A: 'Hot hand' in sports is real, but there's a catch”, in Phys.org, archived from the...

Forms of hot streak

pluralhot streaks

Questions about hot streak

What does hot streak mean?
Hot streak means a run of exceptionally good luck or performance.
How do you use hot streak in a sentence?
Wolf had a faster pump than a slot-machine player on a hot streak.
What part of speech is hot streak?
Hot streak is a noun.
What is the plural of hot streak?
The plural of hot streak is hot streaks.

Words near hot streak in the dictionary

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

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