hotdog
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈhɑːtdɔɡ/
:
perrito caliente
- I ordered a hotdog with mustard and relish at the food truck.
- eat hotdogs
- hotdog stand
- hotdog bun
Examples
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And there's this guy standing at the hotdog wagon.
Fiction book (1999) -
How'd you like a hotdog and a Pepsi?"
Fiction book (1991) -
We just need some hotdogs.
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Then get yourself a hotdog and go for a ride on the Ferris Wheel.
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Buddy had the meatloaf special, a hotdog, and a piece of pie.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yet the gates open, tickets are sold, beer and hotdogs are consumed, and the game is played.
Blog text (5) -
He's got a hotdog stand and a miniature golf course.
Fiction book (1999) -
A straggly group of people watches from the grandstands, eating hotdogs and talking in small clusters.
Fiction book (1991) -
It smells like hotdogs.
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We were starving and spent fifty cents for two hotdogs, coated them an inch thick with relish, mustard, and ketchup, and virtually inhaled them.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
627
8.4
A thin cooked sausage often served in a bread roll
252
1.0
A cooked sausage in a sliced bun, often with mustard or ketchup
184
1.0
A food made from ground meat and spices in a thin skin
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1.8
A small cooked sausage often served in a bread roll like a hot dog
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6.8
A small soft sausage made from beef or pork and often served in a bun
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1.9
A hot dog with spicy meat sauce in a bun
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5.0
A small pork sausage like a bratwurst
17
1.8
A hot dog covered in cornmeal batter and fried on a stick
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4.5
A German sausage people make from pork and often cook on a grill to eat in a bread roll
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3.2
A smooth sausage usually made from beef or pork and eaten in a roll
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2.7
A sausage on a stick covered in cornmeal batter and deep fried
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3.6
A small thin cooked sausage sold in cans or jars
3
8.2
A hot dog in a bun that is hot, often with mustard or onions
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2.0
A smooth, smoky sausage of pork or beef often served in a bread roll
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1.0
A food people make from ground pork and spices inside a skin and cook
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3.4
A thin cooked sausage used in a hot dog
A sausage cooked on a grill and put in a bun like a hot dog
A thin smoked sausage made from beef or pork often served in a bun
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hotdog is an American name that likely began as a joke: vendors sold hot ('hot') sausages that people joked looked like a small dog ('dachshund'), and the funny name stuck. So a hotdog today is a cooked sausage usually served in a sliced bun.