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noun Informal . empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing: His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
Origin of hot air 1835–45 for literal sense
Words nearby hot air hostility, hostler, hostly, host-specific, hot, hot air , hot-air balloon, Hotan, hot and bothered, hot and heavy, hot as blazes
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Example sentences from the Web for hot air I had my doubts about this one—400 pages on hot-air balloons?
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The first time around, there was a hot-air balloon, a lake, and a waterfall.
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The first time around, there was a hot-air balloon, a lake and a waterfall.
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Yet somehow, the Nobel committee passed over these worthies; in the hot-air Olympics, America can still bring home the gold.
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After all, how is it possible for Obama to be surprised by hot-air fringe addictions like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh?
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The block is prepared from crepe rubber, which has been dried either in a hot-air drier or in a vacuum chamber.
The Preparation of Plantation Rubber | Sidney Morgan
This hot-air chamber is formed by simply inclosing a portion of the iron pipes.
Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings | George E. Woodward
For practical purposes, it will suffice if the method of heating and ventilating a bath on the hot-air principle be explained.
The Turkish Bath | Robert Owen Allsop
If adopted it may be either on the hot-air or radiating plan, as in heating by means of furnaces.
The Turkish Bath | Robert Owen Allsop
One of the passenger prisoners—the hero of the kerosene porridge—was known among us as the "hot-air merchant."
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British Dictionary definitions for hot air noun informal empty and usually boastful talk
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Idioms and Phrases with hot air Empty, exaggerated talk, as in That last speech of his was pure hot air . It is also put as full of hot air , as in Pay no attention to Howard—he's full of hot air . This metaphoric term transfers heated air to vaporous talk. [Late 1800s]
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Words related to hot air big talk, bunk, gas, wind, blah-blah-blah