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hotter than a pistol

adj

Definitions

  1. Very hot.

    • "Warm day out there on the highway. . . . It's only June. By the Fourth it'll be hotter than a pistol around here."

  2. Exceptionally popular, productive, or marketable.

    • "Carl Perkins and I were in Amory, Mississippi, with Elvis. Now Elvis, of course, was hotter than a pistol. He had his second record out."
    • Leasing activity is frenzied throughout Manhattan. . . . "Broadway is hotter than a pistol and you have to shoehorn your way into SoHo," reports Faith H. Consolo.
    • Joey Logano, who's hotter than a pistol, won the NASCAR Chase race at Kansas Sunday.

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