Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hotter than a pistol

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.43 in modern English

Syllables: hot-ter than a pis-tol
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very hot.

adj

Exceptionally popular, productive, or marketable.

Canadian usage; American usage

Example Sentences

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

Usage

Canadian usage
American usage

Synonyms

hotter than a two dollar pistol

Questions

What does hotter than a pistol mean?: Very hot.

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