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hotted up

hotted up is the simple past and past participle of hot up.

Meaning of hot up

Verb

hot up (third-person singular simple present hots up, present participle hotting up, simple past and past participle hotted up)

  1. (Ireland, UK) To increase in temperature.
    • Wait for the water to hot up before adding the salt.
    Synonyms:
    heat up, warm up
  2. (Ireland, UK, informal) To become more heated.
    • The choice of a new leader hots up.
  3. (Ireland, UK, informal) To make or become more sexually appealing, enticing or exciting.
    • We move to Twankey's launderette, where the Aladdin/Bathroomdoor romance hots up.1997, Theatre Record, volume 17, numbers 18-26, page 1644
    Synonyms:
    sex up

Questions about hotted up

What is hotted up the simple past and past participle of?
Hotted up is the simple past and past participle of hot up.

Words near hotted up in the dictionary

  1. hotsteps
  2. hotsy-totsies
  3. hotsy-totsy
  4. hott
  5. hotted
  6. hotted up
  7. Hottel
  8. Hottels
  9. hotten
  10. hottened
  11. Hottens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hotted up (page history and authors); hot up (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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