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hotter

adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue

  • Australia

One who steals a vehicle in order to joyride.

adjective

  1. 1

    Also a form of hotcomparative form of hot: more hot

noun

  1. 1

    slangOne who steals a vehicle in order to joyride.

    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[…]

  2. 2

    An industrial worker employed to heat something.

    It was soon recognised that women rivet hotters complained the most; not only was this hot work, but noisy and dirty too.

verb

  1. 1

    datedTo vibrate; to rattle.

    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 […]

Forms

plural
hotters
past tense
hottered
past participle
hottered
present participle
hottering
third person singular
hotters
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).