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hot list, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈhɒt ˌlɪst|, U.S. |ˈhɑt ˈlɪst|
[‹ hot adj. + list n.6]
1. A (notional) list of tasks or items taking priority over others.
1955Amer. Speech 30 226 Hot list, a list of ‘hot’ or top-priority jobs. 1962F. L. W. Richardson & C. R. Walker in C. R. Walker Mod. Technol. & Civilization ii. 191 In this way they get information to explain why items are on the so-called ‘hot’ list. 1982Business Week (Nexis) 26 Apr. 61 ‘Burned-out’ tax shelters that have lost their write-off value and begun to generate taxable income are now on the Internal Revenue Service's hot list. 1991Industr. Engin. (Nexis) Nov. 37 Most organizations operate some sort of pull system today; often disguised as the ‘hot list’ or the weekly production meeting where the jobs are prioritized based on customer needs.
2. A (notional) list of selected popular, fashionable, or recommended items; a list of people or items currently in vogue.
1968Science 12 July (front matter) (advt.) We will send this Hot List to you and your staff monthly. 1981N.Y. Times (Nexis) 2 Aug. 8/3 Pop's Hot List—a wine newsletter—is..filled with chatty anecdotes as well as serious information like suggested white wine buys for summer entertaining. 1986Fortune 3 Feb. 18 Their names were obtained from what one recruiter refers to as his star file, what another calls his hot list. Most are in their 40s, and many are considered ripe for plucking. 1989Pittsburgh Business Times & Jrnl. (Nexis) 23 Jan. i. 1 Mario's..has stayed on the ‘hot’ list of local restaurants for more than six years. 1996Guardian 31 Dec. i. 12/6 Also on the hot-list for 1997: pre-autographed books, poetry, parking meters that accept credit cards, watches that transfer data to computers, snowshoeing, backyard golf and professional miniature golf.
3. A list of stolen items; spec. a list of lost and stolen credit cards circulated to retailers in order that the cards may be intercepted.
1969Fresno (Calif.) Bee 31 Mar. 4 a/3 Clerk Robert C. Singletary checked the card against the ‘hot list’ and found it had been reported stolen. 1982Sports Illustr. (Nexis) 1 Mar. 48 He was freed only when the police learned that his car, a rebuilt junker, had mistakenly been left on the ‘hot list’ by the insurance company. 1995A. Hoffman Steal this Bk. 208 You can redo a legitimate card with a new number and signature and be sure that it's on no one's ‘hot list’. 2003Toronto Star (Nexis) 31 Jan. a2 An on-board computer linked to the police ‘hot list’ of stolen cars, instantly tells officers if any of the cars in the area were reported stolen.
4. Computing. A list of favourite or most frequently accessed web pages whose addresses or URLs are saved by a user in his or her browser, to facilitate quick access subsequently. Cf. bookmark n. 3.
1993New ‘XMosaic’ World-wide Web Browser from NCSA in alt.hypertext (Usenet newsgroup) 29 Jan. Hotlist capability—keep list of interesting documents, add/remove items, list is persistent across sessions. 1997J. Seabrook Deeper vii. 237 The simplest way to do this was to make a ‘hotlist’—a collection of clickable links to other Web sites that you thought were interesting. 2005M. Levene Introd. Search Engines & Web Navigation vii. 161 The bookmarks tool (also known as the favourites list or the hot list) is a standard browser tool. |