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hot property

noun

Etymology

From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot check (“fraudulent check”).

Definitions

  1. Stolen goods.

  2. Something that is highly sought after.

    • There was Nimmi (pronounced Neemi), a honey-coloured, nymph-like beauty. She had done a lascivious mating dance in an Indian technicolour epic called Aan, and she was hot property at the box office.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA