hot up
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Verb
hot up (third-person singular simple present hots up, present participle hotting up, simple past and past participle hotted up)
- To heat up:
- (UK, Ireland) To increase in temperature.
- Wait for the water to hot up before adding the salt.
- I hotted up my scones.
- (UK, Ireland, informal) To become more heated.
- The choice of a new leader hots up.
- Bayern München hotted up the title race with a win.
- (UK, Ireland, informal) To make or become more sexually appealing, enticing or exciting.
- 1997, Theatre Record, volume 17, numbers 18-26, page 1644:
- We move to Twankey's launderette, where the Aladdin/Bathroomdoor romance hots up.
- 2001, Sayan Chatterjee, It all adds up to love, page 40:
- Arvind and Shiela's romance hotted up.
- (UK, Ireland) To increase in temperature.
Synonyms
References
- “hot up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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