hot dog

Meaning

1. A sausage, typically a frankfurter.
2. 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.
3. A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing.
4. A battered, deep-fried sausage or saveloy on a stick; a corn dog.
5. Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a long rectangle.
6. The penis.
7. A sexually suggestive physical gesture involving movement of the hips.
8. To perform a dangerous or difficult act or stunt as a display of skill or daring, especially in surfing and other sports.
9. An expression of delight or enthusiasm.
10. An expression of disappointment.

Etymology / origin

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

Related words

Descendant words

• 熱狗(Chinese) (calque)
• hotdog(Danish) (bor)
• hotdog(Dutch) (bor)
• hotsi(Finnish) (der)
• kuuma koira(Finnish) (cal)
• chien chaud(French) (calque)
• hot-dog(French) (bor)
• Hotdog(German) (bor)
• हॉट-डॉग(Hindi) (bor)
• ホットドッグ(Japanese) (bor)
• 핫도그(Korean) (bor)
• caûd tchian(Norman) (calque)
• cachorro-quente(Portuguese) (clq)
• хот-дог(Russian) (bor)
• hotdog(Serbo-Croatian) (bor)
• hot dog(Spanish) (bor)
• hotdog(Spanish) (bor)
• jocho(Spanish) (der)
• perrito caliente(Spanish) (calque)
• perro caliente(Spanish) (cal)
• ฮอตดอก(Thai) (bor)
• хот-дог(Ukrainian) (bor)
• ci poeth(Welsh) (calque)

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