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the absence of cold, dressed up as a feeling and a flex.
means having a high temperature, or by extension intensely attractive, spicy, popular, or charged with energy.
from From Old English 'hat,' meaning warm or fiery, with cousins across the Germanic family — German 'heiss,' Dutch 'heet' — all tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root for heat. The literal sense of temperature came first; the metaphorical heats (a 'hot' temper, a 'hot' chili, a 'hot' celebrity, a 'hot' stock tip) all kindled over centuries as English borrowed the idea of warmth to describe anything burning with intensity.
- not a thing
- heat is motion, not a substance
- capsaicin trick
- chili pepper heat is pain, not temperature
- slang age
- meaning attractive dates back to the 1920s
- hottest place
- Death Valley hit 134 degrees Fahrenheit
death valley — lowest, hottest place in north america at 134°f (56.7°c) in 1913
kuwait city — reached 154°f (67.4°c) in 2016, one of hottest cities on earth
phoenix arizona summer — regularly exceeds 120°f (49°c) with 143°f (61.7°c) record in 1990