hot dog

• hotdog (hot-dog)

From hot +‎ dog, in reference to the supposed source of the meat, both in the senses of the food item (sense 1, sense 2) and of a show-off (sense 3). First attested in 1884 in the Evansville (Indiana) Daily Courier.^[1]

• (noun and verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒt.dɒɡ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑt.dɔɡ/, /ˈhɑt.dɑɡ/

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  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑt.dɑɡ/
  • (Boston, New England) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌt.dɒɡ/, [ˈhʌʔ.dɒːɡ]
  • Rhymes: -ɒtdɒɡ

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• (interjection):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhɒtˈdɒɡ/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑtˈdɔɡ/, /ˌhɑtˈdɑɡ/

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  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑtˈdɑɡ/

hot dog (plural hot dogs)

2. A sausage, typically a frankfurter.

   Synonyms: frankfurter, frank, frankfurt; wiener, weenie (informal); glizzy (US slang), tube steak (slang), pimp steak (rare slang), red hot (US dialectal)

   Hyponyms: ballpark frank, veggie dog (sometimes)

   Coordinate terms: veggie dog, not dog; hamburger

   Don't forget to buy some hot dogs to grill and some buns to put them on.

   Hot dogs and beans are a traditional favorite.

4. A food item (dish) consisting of a frankfurter or wiener and (usually) a hot dog bun, with toppings such as ketchup, mustard, relish, sauerkraut, onions, cheese, etc.

   Synonyms: frankfurter, frank, frankfurt; wiener, weenie (informal); glizzy (US slang), tube steak (slang), pimp steak (rare slang), red hot (US dialectal)

   Hyponyms: ballpark frank, cheese coney, Coney Island, cheese dog, Chicago-style hot dog, Chicago dog, chili dog, corndog, dagwood dog, footlong, junkyard dog, pig in a blanket, steamie

   Coordinate terms: veggie dog (sometimes hyponymous), not dog; sandwich (sometimes hypernymous); hamburger

   He ordered a hot dog with everything on it.

6. A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing.
7. (New Zealand) A battered, deep-fried sausage or saveloy on a stick; a corn dog.
8. (US, education, informal) Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a long rectangle.

   Coordinate term: hamburger

10. (slang, vulgar) The penis.

    Synonyms: wiener; see also Thesaurus:penis

    • 1994, Sexual Harassment in Education‎^[1], page 26:

      primarily verbal teasing from both male and female students, ranging from statements that the student had a "hot dog in her pants" and that she had "sex with hot dogs." to graffiti that "Jane is a hot dog bitch."

    • 1995, The Guide to American Law Supplement‎^[2], page 347:

      It started in the fall of 1990, early in seventh grade, when two boys told her, "I hear you have a hot dog in your pants."
      girls were now making hot dog remarks. the counselor maintained—incorrectly—that he was powerless to stop it

    • 1996, Richard Sandomir, Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless‎^[3], page 5:

      How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?

    • 1999, Louis I. Gerdes, Sexual Harassment‎^[4], page 118:

      In the fall of 1990, when she was in the seventh grade, classmates spread the word that Doe had a hot dog in her pants.

    • 2012, Elias Sassoon, Hashish Dreaming‎^[5]:

      But what it is basically the in and the out, the hot dog splicing through the doughnut.

    • 2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13

      I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.

11. (slang, vulgar) A sexually suggestive physical gesture involving movement of the hips.
    • 2006, Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop, page 98:

      This gyrated gesture (“hot dog”) appears to suggest the movements of sexual intercourse to an onlooker, but for girls it's merely play. The movement is also, however, a way of learning to move one's hips in a way that will become useful, on and off the dance floor, in their embodied relations with others.

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• saveloy

hot dog (third-person singular simple present hot dogs, present participle hot dogging, simple past and past participle hot dogged)

1. (slang, intransitive) To perform a dangerous or difficult act or stunt as a display of skill or daring, especially in surfing and other sports.

   Hypernym: show off

hot dog

1. An expression of delight or enthusiasm.
   • 1954, Oren Arnold, The Golden Chair, Elsevier, page 249:

     He patted his lap for her to sit on. Hot dog, I said to myself; settin' on his lap!

   • 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 140:

     "Anybody with an alibi they can tell me?" I said. No one said anything "Hot dog!" I said.

2. An expression of disappointment.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Unadapted borrowing from English hot dog.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhotdoɡ/, [ˈho̞t̪do̞ɡ]

hot dog

1. hot dog (frankfurter in a bun)

   Synonym: nakkisämpylä

Unadapted borrowing from English hot dog.

hot dog m (invariable)

1. hot dog (frankfurter in a bun)
2. (by extension) hot dog (the complete snack)

• würstel

Unadapted borrowing from American English hot dog.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔd.dɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔddɔk
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hot dog m animal

1. hot dog (food item consisting of a frankfurter or wiener, typically served on a hot dog bun, with toppings such as ketchup, mustard, relish, sauerkraut, onions, cheese, etc.)

• hot dog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hot dog in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• hot dog in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English hot dog.

hot dog m (plural hot dogs)

1. (Brazil) hot dog (frankfurter in a bun)

   Synonym: cachorro-quente

• dogue

Unadapted borrowing from English hot dog.

hot dog m (plural hot dogi)

1. hot dog

Borrowed from English hot dog.

• IPA^(key): /ˌxod ˈdoɡ/ [ˌxoð̞ ˈð̞oɣ̞]

hot dog m (plural hot dogs or hot dog)

1. (Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico) hot dog (the complete snack, never just the sausage)

   Synonyms: (Guatemala and other parts of Central America) chévere, (Spain) perrito caliente, (Costa Rica) perro caliente