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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze

Meaning of "hot potato" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOT POTATO

hot potato play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOT POTATO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hot potato is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOT POTATO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hot Potato

Hot Potato may refer to: ▪ Hot potato, a party game involving tossing a small object ▪ Hot Potato!, a video game...

Definition of hot potato in the English dictionary

The definition of hot potato in the dictionary is an awkward or delicate matter.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOT POTATO

hot issue
hot jazz
hot key
hot link
hot metal
hot money
hot on
hot pants
hot pepper
hot pool
hot press
hot rod
hot seat
hot shit
hot shoe
hot spot
hot spring
hot stuff
hot swapping
hot tub

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOT POTATO

African potato
agitato
baked potato
couch potato
fingerling potato
in loco citato
Irish potato
jacket potato
loco citato
new potato
potato
saltato
seed potato
sweet potato
white potato

Synonyms and antonyms of hot potato in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hot potato» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOT POTATO

Find out the translation of hot potato to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hot potato from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hot potato» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

烫手山芋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

patata caliente
570 millions of speakers

English

hot potato
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गर्म आलू
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

البطاطا الساخنة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

горячий картофель
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

batata quente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গরম আলু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

patate chaude
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kentang panas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heiße Kartoffel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ホットポテト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뜨거운 감자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kentang panas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khoai tây nóng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சூடான உருளைக்கிழங்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गरम बटाटे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıcak patates
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

patata bollente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gorący kartofel
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гарячий картопля
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cartof fierbinte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καυτή πατάτα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

warm patat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

het potatis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

varm potet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hot potato

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOT POTATO»

The term «hot potato» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.187 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOT POTATO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hot potato» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hot potato» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hot potato

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QUOTES WITH «HOT POTATO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hot potato.
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Patrick Swayze
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOT POTATO»

Discover the use of hot potato in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hot potato and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hot Potato: Mealtime Rhymes
An anthology of short poems inspired by food, from soup to dessert, and written by such poets as Lewis Carroll, Douglas Florian, A.A. Milne, and Edward Lear.
Neil Philip, 2004
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Hot Potato
Feisty Fizz Fitzgerald and dour Tam Buchanan??'s walking holiday in the Scottish Highlands is rudely interpreted by an attempted murder
Joyce Holms, 2005
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Hopscotch, Hangman, Hot Potato, & Ha Ha Ha: A Rulebook of ...
Presents the rules for more than two hundred games, including indoor, outdoor, playground, party, and travel games, and includes information on the number of players, equipment, and object of the game
Jack Maguire, 1990
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Hot Potato
The problem is, none of the girls are allowed to have a new horse. They each tell their parents that the new horse (which they call 'Hot Potato') belongs to one of the other girls.
Alyssa Brugman, Alyssa Brugman, 2010
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Hot Potato, Hot Potato
A rainy day sees the Wiggles playing a game of hot potato with Henry the Octopus. On board pages.
‎2004
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Cooperative Games and Sports: Joyful Activities for Everyone
A hot potato (beanbag or ball) is passed around the circle from one person to the next until the potato caller (who starts as the only person in a separate potato- callers' circle) shouts, "Hot potato!" The person holding the potato at this time jumps ...
Terry Orlick, 2006
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Hot Potato, Hot Potato
It has been raining all day and The Wiggles can't go out to play. What will they do? Murray suggests a game of hot potato. Who will be crowned 'Hot Potato Champion'? Find out in this oversized board book.
Wiggles (Musical group), Wiggles, The, 2005
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The Rotarian
and threw the hot potato to him. He juggled it desperately while his mother laughed and said: "You don't know what to do with it— do you?" "Suddenly, I did," said my friend. "I threw it back to my mother, who looked surprised, but caught it, ...
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Algorithms and Data Structures: Third Workshop, WADS '93, ...
One of the most promising approaches towards simple and efficient routing algorithms on the basic hypercube and array networks is that of hot potato or deflection algorithms. In such algorithms, queues are not allowed so that each node ...
Frank Dehne, 1993
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Macroeconomic Essentials: Understanding Economics in the News
This story is sometimes told using the hot potato analogy. Suppose the extra money takes the form of a hot potato, which nobody wants to hold because everyone currently has all the potato (money) they want to hold. Whoever has the hot ...
Peter Kennedy, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOT POTATO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hot potato is used in the context of the following news items.
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The hot potato: Pensions a ticking time bomb | Wells Journal
The hot potato: Pensions a ticking time bomb. By MidSom_News | Posted: July 16, 2015. The pensions situation is going to be grim for the generations to come. «Wells Journal, Jul 15»
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TLC cancels Duggar family's '19 Kids and Counting' | Las Vegas …
... TLC will cancel the controversial "19 Kids and Counting," the popular program about the large Duggar clan that became a hot potato for the ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
3
Dry spell wilts Indian crops, stokes food inflation concerns | Reuters
Food prices are a political hot potato in India, where more than a quarter of its population of 1.2 billion people live on a mere 74 cents or less ... «Reuters UK, Jul 15»
4
19 facts you definitely, 100% didn't know about 5SOS's Luke …
There is some BIG NEWS in the world of music this week as 5 Seconds of Summer guitarist, knee-flasher and all around hot potato Luke ... «Sugarscape, Jul 15»
5
The story behind Airbnb's trans-friendly ESPYs ad - Mashable
It's really been like a hot potato in the media community and in the advertising community. It's really been like a hot potato in the media ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
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Momentum investing like 'jumping off a speeding train and onto the …
Buyers need plenty of time and know-how to understand exactly when to toss a hot potato without getting burned. The strategy also seems to ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
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ECB: it's time to focus on yields - FXstreet.com
Short-termism has taken over, Greece is the new hot potato that Europe's leaders want to throw to someone else as soon as possible. Greece: ... «FXStreet, Jul 15»
8
Shares - City AM
The survey also looked at the political hot potato that is Brexit, finding that 58 per cent of Tories thought leaving the EU would have a positive ... «City A.M., Jul 15»
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Alex Smith still a bit amazed at how quickly the 49ers have turned over
Its like they are playing hot potato with a bomb, and the last one holding it is the qb who always gets the blame anyway. I dont see this ending ... «NBCSports.com, Jul 15»
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Rockabye Your Bear - The Wiggles are here | Stuff.co.nz
These new hits will be heard alongside classics of The Wiggles genre, including Hot Potato!, Rock-a-Bye Your Bear and Do the Propeller. «The Press, Jul 15»

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