Hot-air balloon
noun
1.
a lighter-than-air craft in which air heated by a flame is trapped in a large fabric bag
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- Hot as a three-dollar pistol
adjective phrase Very hot; red-hot: The rumor is hot as a three-dollar pistol (1940s+)
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adjective phrase Very hot indeed ( first form 1849+, second 1912+) Also, hot as hell. Extremely warm, as in It was hot as blazes in that room, or I’m hot as hell and would love a cold shower. The first of these hyperbolic similes dates from the mid-1800s, the second from the early 1900s.
- Hotbed
[hot-bed] /ˈhɒtˌbɛd/ noun 1. a bottomless, boxlike, usually glass-covered structure and the of earth it covers, heated typically by fermenting manure or electrical cables, for growing plants out of season. 2. a place or environment favoring rapid growth or spread, especially of something disliked or unwanted: a hotbed of disease. 3. Slang. a shared by […]
- Hot-bed
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