hot seat

Questions about hot seat

What does hot seat mean?

hot seat means "an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hot seat?

Close synonyms include electric chair, chair, death chair. 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 seat a common word?

hot seat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.