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hot dog
Word forms: plural hot dogs
countable noun
A hot dog is a long bread roll with a hot sausage inside it.
hot dog in British English
noun
1.
a sausage, esp a frankfurter, served hot in a long roll split lengthways
2. mainly US
a person who performs showy acrobatic manoeuvres when skiing or surfing
verb hot-dog, -dogs, -dogging or -dogged
3. (intransitive) mainly US
to perform a series of manoeuvres in skiing, surfing, etc, esp in a showy manner
Word origin
C20: sense 1 from the supposed resemblance of the sausage to a dachshund; sense 2from US hot dog!, exclamation of pleasure, approval, etc hot-dog in British English
(ˈhɒtˌdɒɡ)
verb (intransitive)
sport informal
to perform a series of manoeuvres in skiing, surfing, etc, esp in a showy manner
hot dog in American English
US
1. Informal
a frankfurter or wiener, esp. one served hot in a long, soft roll, with mustard, relish, etc.
2. Slang
an exclamation used to express delight
Word origin
orig. (?) so called (c. 1900) by T. A. Dorgan, U.S. cartoonist (died 1929), prob. in allusion to pop. notionthat the sausage was made of dog meathot-dog in American English
(ˈhɑtˌdɔg)
US
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈhot-ˌdogged or ˈhot-ˌdogging
1. Slang
to perform, esp. in sports, so as to attract attention; show off
noun
2. Slang
a person who hot-dogs; showoff
adjective
Also ˈhotˌdog 3. Slang
designating a form of freestyle skiing that involves acrobatics
Derived forms
hot-dogger (ˈhot-ˌdogger) noun
Word origin
< (sense hot dog (sense 2))Image ofhot dog
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In other languageshot dog
British English: hot dog /hɒt dɒɡ/ NOUN
A hot dog is a long bread roll with a sausage in it.
- American English: hot dog
- Arabic: نَقَانِق
- Brazilian Portuguese: cachorro-quente
- Chinese: 热狗
- Croatian: hot dog
- Czech: párek v rohlíku
- Danish: hotdog
- Dutch: hotdog
- European Spanish: perrito caliente
- Finnish: nakkisämpylä
- French: hot dog
- German: Hot Dog
- Greek: χοτ ντογκ
- Italian: hot dog
- Japanese: ホットドック
- Korean: 핫도그
- Norwegian: pølse i brød
- Polish: hot dog
- European Portuguese: cachorro-quente
- Romanian: hot dog
- Russian: хот-дог
- Latin American Spanish: perro caliente
- Swedish: varmkorv
- Thai: ขนมปังประกบไส้กรอก
- Turkish: sosisli sandviç
- Ukrainian: хот-дог
- Vietnamese: bánh mì kẹp xúc xích
Chinese translation of 'hot dog'
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