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sizzler

sizzler

2 5.3
A hot dish served on a metal plate that makes a hissing sound
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪzlɚ/
translation icon : sizzler
  • All-you-can-eat barbecue rib night at the Sizzler?

It was bottomless step dads, the sizzler of step dads.

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Examples

  • At the restaurant, the special was a spicy sizzler that excited all the diners.

  • There was a Sizzler that we just passed - on the way over here.

    Stan Helsing (2009)

  • OK, let's go to Sizzler.

    Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

  • Do you fancy maybe going for a sausage sizzler at the park?

    Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! (2012)

  • Let's go to Sizzler.

    Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

  • You left our "who owes who what" cheats in a booth at the Sizzler.

    Lay the Favorite (2012)

  • For us, the Abramowitzes of Beverly Hills... a meal at Sizzler meant that we were halfway home.

    Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

  • The space it occupies was for many years the site of the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, a congregation that now leases space at a nearby Sizzler restaurant.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The sizzler plate arrived at our table, steaming and filled with grilled vegetables and chicken.

  • She ordered a sizzler for dinner, eager to taste the steak served on a hot plate.

Antonyms

cold
131 1.0

The feeling of low temperature on your body

How Hot

heatwave
3 3.0
scorcher
  • Informal
6 4.5
sizzler
2 5.3
cool
65 1.0

Surface Forms

sizzler singular
sizzlers plural

Morphology

sizzler = sizzle (semi-transparent) = sizzle + er

The word 'sizzler' is derived from 'sizzle' with the addition of the suffix '-er', indicating something that sizzles or is exciting, but the specific meaning of a dish served on a hot plate is not immediately obvious.

Etymology

Sizzler comes from the verb sizzle, which copies the 'sizzling' sound of food on a hot plate, and the -er part means 'something that does' that action. So a sizzler is a dish that literally 'sizzles' on the plate and, by extension, something very hot or exciting.