Meaning

Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color..

Definitions by Sense

1. Heated to the point that it glows with a visible red color.
2. (hyperbolic) Very hot.
3. (informal) Emotionally charged, especially with anger or enthusiasm.
4. (informal) Having very strong sex appeal.
5. (informal) Very fresh, exciting, and up-to-date.
6. (dated, US) Alternative spelling of red hot.

Example Sentences

The smith's apprentice was still wary of manipulating the red-hot metal.

The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence.

Heaped up upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chesnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

Among this nation of necromancers there was also one who had in his veins the blood of the salamanders; for he made no scruple of sitting down to smoke his chibouc in a red-hot oven until his dinner was thoroughly roasted upon its floor.

[A] red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; […]

The cat-heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain.

That curry was red-hot.

He really delivered a red-hot speech today.

Word Forms

• more red-hot
• most red-hot
• red hot
• redhot
• red-hots

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