hot pot
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- noun
- /hɑt pɑt/
- UK
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estofado
- Linda is standing over the stove, sweating as she stirs a hot pot of boiling soup.
- Mongolian hot pot
- hot pot restaurant
- Taiwanese hot pot
Examples
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Beef tripe is usually the first thing I like to put into the hot pot because beef tripe give the soup stock a lot of flavor.
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The same goes for the traditional beef hot pot; there's nothing more delicious and warming on a cold night, and there's nothing quite as yummy as some cold new potatoes or a crunchy salad on a hot day.
Blog text (12) -
So we ended up coming to Flushing to get some hot pot since we have a car.
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And what I love so much about hot pot is that it's three meals and the meals get more delicious as they go.
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We can only order spicy hot pot right at this hour
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we are eating spicy hot pot
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Let's eat hot pot!
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Mudear would always say the same thing, from the phone, from the other side of the bathroom door, from outside in the garden: "Don't y'all girls dare touch that hot pot."
Fiction book (1993) -
He pulled the still hot pot off the burner and put it straight into the sink on top of our daughter's favorite plastic plate, which is now ruined.
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The family gathered around the table to enjoy a delicious hot pot filled with tender meat and fresh vegetables.
Synonyms
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1.0
A dish of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid
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1.5
A thick spicy stew with meat and beans often made with hot peppers
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A large piece of beef slow cooked in liquid in a covered pot with vegetables like carrots and potatoes
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1.0
A dish of beef cooked slowly with vegetables in liquid
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9.9
A thick soup or stew made from vegetables and sometimes meat, often eaten in the past
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A dish of chicken pieces cooked slowly with vegetables in liquid
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A stew of meat and potatoes cooked slowly in a covered pot
A thick soup with meat and vegetables
A dish cooked slowly in a slow cooker
A hot dish where meat and vegetables cook slowly in a tasty liquid
A French stew of beef and vegetables slowly cooked in water or broth
A large heavy pot used for cooking soup or stew
A thick spicy soup with vegetables and cow stomach often served with dumplings
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a stew cooked in a pot' is directly and literally derivable from combining 'hot' (warm) and 'pot' (cooking vessel), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a hot dish served from or cooked in a pot. This compositional naming pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., French pot-au-feu) so a B1 learner would readily understand the general meaning, though specific cultural variants may require extra exposure.
Etymology
Hot pot comes from a simple cooking picture: a very hot pot where meat and potatoes are cooked slowly under a tight lid. Because families often ate the food straight from that single pot, the name came to mean this kind of 'stew'.