say it: HAHT-dawg
hotdog is a noun meaning "someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself". It carries 3 recorded senses.
someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself
a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hotdog come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.