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hot stuff
a. A person or thing out of the ordinary run, something of surpassing excellence or merit; sometimes with implication of moral censure; also, specif., a woman reputed to be highly sexed. Also attrib., esp. (i) sexually explicit, (ii) extremely capable or efficient. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1889Kansas City (Missouri) Times & Star 14 Nov., ‘Miss Middleton's Lover.’ Were there room for two words in that last line, ‘Hot Stuff’ might be appropriate. 1900Dialect Notes II. 42 Hot stuff. 1. A person of good quality; often ironical. 2. A person having merit. 1905Wodehouse Head of Kay's 252 Kay's are hot stuff, Jimmy. 1908Varsity Vices May 5/1 Gad, though, but she's tremendously hot stuff, the little devil. Stood her a bust at the Zoo. 1909Wodehouse Mike xvii. 101 The book was obviously the last word in hot stuff. 1911F. Swinnerton Casement i. 41, I say, Trevell..you had any dealings with Jimpton? Eh? He's hot stuff..what! 1912C. Mackenzie Carnival x. 111 I'm not going to have fellows say my sister's hot stuff. 1912Strand Mag. Jan. 22/2 Clarence in goal was the nearest approach to an indiarubber acrobat..to be seen off the music-hall stage. He was, in brief, hot stuff. 1915H. Wilson Diary 9 Sept. (1927) I. 249 Here is Sarrail..to urge a plan about which he knows nothing. And all because he is a Radical-Socialist. Hot stuff. 1917A. Waugh Loom of Youth ii. i. 111 This side [sc. a Rugby football team] was certainly ‘pretty hot stuff’. 1923H. G. Wells Men like Gods i. vi. 102 ‘Raced us from Hounslow,’ said Mr. Burleigh's driver. ‘Real hot stuff.’ 1928Punch 21 Mar. 328/1 His father had influence.., being a frightfully hot-stuff surgeon. 1931Amer. Speech Feb. 204 Hot stuff, new, up-to-date material or new incidents; approved as being startling, or the ‘latest’. 1931W. Deeping Road viii. 86 I'm getting my new M.-B. next week. Hot stuff. She'll do eighty. 1936E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest 43 During the interval we discussed, not whether the Scallies were good, but whether they were better or worse than the Wags. They were less hot stuff, that was admitted on all sides. 1940Graves & Hodge Long Week-End iv. 52 Elinor Glyn was the reigning queen of popular love literature and considered ‘very hot stuff’. 1944M. Paneth Branch Street 64 The men say of her, ‘Joan is hot stuff.’ 1965D. Lodge Brit. Mus. is falling Down vii. 125 A sort of novel,..the story of his affair with Mother, with just the names changed. It's hot stuff, as we used to say at school. 1965H. Porter Cats of Venice 91 Singapore boy hot stuff, hot stuff!
b. slang. Stolen goods. Cf. stuff n.1 10 b.
1924G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom ix. 117 Pawnshops and second-hand stores establish a reputation for handling ‘hot stuff’ and there are very few such establishments that will refuse to buy from a known thief. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed vii. 51 So you're handling a bit of hot stuff as well as joy-popping?
So hot-stuff v. trans. (Army slang), to scrounge, steal; hot-stuffed ppl. a.; hot-stuffer, a scrounger.
1914H. Rosher In R.N.A.S. (1916) 36, I at once hot-stuffed one of his inlet valves and set the men to work changing it. 1929Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. X. 300/1 Hot-stuffed, stolen. Ibid., Hot-stuffer, a thief. 1950E. Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 81 Hotstuff, to appropriate illicitly, to steal. |