hot dog

Questions about hot dog

What does hot dog mean?

hot dog means "someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hot dog?

Close synonyms include hotdog, hotdog, red hot, frank, frankfurter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hot dog a common word?

hot dog is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.