hotter

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• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

hotter

1. comparative form of hot: more hot

hotter (plural hotters)

1. (UK, slang) One who steals a vehicle in order to joyride.
   • 1992, David P. Waddington, Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder, page 209:

     Unable effectively to give chase to the hotters for fear of endangering the lives of pedestrians and motorists, the police had been forced to play a waiting game […]

• hotting

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hotter (third-person singular simple present hotters, present participle hottering, simple past and past participle hottered)

1. (UK, dialect, Northern England, dated) To vibrate; to rattle.
   • 1833, Thomas Sopwith, An account of the mining districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham, page 137:

     The jolting, hottering motion of the waggon, the splashing of the water, and the dark and narrow passage, all concur to produce a strange effect […]

• t'other, throte, tother

hotdog +‎ -er

hotter

1. hotdog