Hot-button issue
noun phrase
something that emotionally motivates people to buy one product over another; also, any goods or services that take advantage of this motivation
Examples
Losing weight is the hot-button issue of the day.
Read Also:
- Hot sheet
modifier Catering to quick assignations; permitting short-term occupancy: The ”Strip Tease” murder includes a brief, touching appearance of the forlorn manager of a hotsheet place called the Flightpath Motel/ Investigating shady insurance claims lands Jack in the usual hot-sheet motels in North Dallas [1980s+; modeled on hot bed]
- Hot-shit
noun, Slang: Vulgar. 1. a person who behaves in a showy or conceited manner; hotshot. 2. (used to express enthusiasm or approval.) modifier : Thought he was a hot shit basketball player/ to get the hot-shit, thick-book education he could well afford n phr,interj hot dog noun phrase
- Hot-shoe
noun, Photography. 1. a bracket on a camera body that provides support and electrical contact for an electronic flash attachment. noun 1. (photog) an accessory shoe on a camera through which electrical contact is made to an electronic flash device
- Hot-short
[hot-shawrt] /ˈhɒtˈʃɔrt/ adjective 1. (of steel or wrought iron) brittle when heated, usually due to high sulfur content.
- Hotshot
[hot-shot] /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/ Slang. adjective 1. highly successful and aggressive: a hotshot lawyer; a hotshot account exec. 2. displaying skill flamboyantly: a hotshot ballplayer. 3. moving, going, or operating without a stop; fast: a hotshot express. noun, Also, (for defs 4, 6). 4. an impressively successful or skillful and often vain person. 5. Railroads. an express […]