hotter

English

Pronunciation
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  • Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

Adjective

hotter

  1. comparative form of hot: more hot

Noun

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 […]

Etymology 2

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Verb

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 […]

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

hotdog +‎ -er

Noun

hotter

  1. hotdog

Declension
Declension of hotter
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hotter hotteren hottere hotterne
genitive hotters hotterens hotteres hotternes
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