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ˈhot-pot, hot pot
1. A hot drink composed of ale and spirits, or ale sweetened and spiced. local.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Hot Pot, Ale and Brandy boyled together. c1730Royal Remarks 49 All of them in a loving Way, over a Hot Pot. 1825Brockett, Hot-Pot, warmed ale with spirit in it. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Heeat pots, pots of hot ale sweetened and spiced, with which the friends of a bridal party meet them on the road from church after the marriage ceremony.
2. A dish composed of mutton or beef with potatoes, or potatoes and onions, cooked in an oven in an earthenware pot with a tight-fitting cover. Also attrib.
1851London at Table i. 21 At the bottom of the table,..let there be a hot-pot. 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xlii, Master, there's hot-pot for dinner to-day. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. xvi. 160 The Colonel..was great at making hash mutton, hot-pot, curry and pillau. 1889Daily News 26 Dec. 2/7 Yesterday over 30,000 poor people in Liverpool, were provided with ‘hot pot’ dinners..Each ‘hot pot’ weighed ten pounds. There were used 13,000 lbs. of beef, 15 tons of potatoes, and a ton and a half of onions.
3. Racing slang. (See quots. and cf. hot a. 8 e.)
1922N. & Q. 23 Sept. 206/2 Hot pot, a horse which has been heavily backed. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. xvii. 299 ‘Truth’ has always devoted special attention to sporting news and, as a consequence, has developed racing jargon considerably... A favourite is a hot-pot. |