hotter
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Adjective
hotter
- comparative form of hot: more hot
Noun
hotter (plural hotters)
- (Britain, 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 […]
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Related terms
- hotting
Verb
hotter (third-person singular simple present hotters, present participle hottering, simple past and past participle hottered)
- (Britain, dialectal, 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 […]
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Anagrams
- t'other, throte, tother
Danish
Etymology
hotdog + -er
Noun
hotter
- hotdog
Declension
Declension of hotter
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hotter | hotteren | hottere | hotterne |
| genitive | hotters | hotterens | hotteres | hotternes |