hotpot
- noun
- /ˈhɑtˌpɑt/
- UK
- At the restaurant, we chose the seafood hotpot, which was filled with fresh shrimp and fish.
Examples
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Older kids will enjoy cooking their own meals at the table, as diners have to decide between hotpot or barbecue.
Blog text (15) -
In any case, to boost morale, we must have... meat and potato hotpot.
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What, are you like the hotpot master, but an okonomiyaki master?
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Hold tight, lad, and think of Lancashire hotpot.
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Hotpot...
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Having collected extensively around the hotpots of Northern California while a graduate student at Berkeley, I look forward to comparing the species in these northern climes.
Fiction book (2000) -
All the carriers would have to cripple 2.2's instant-hotpot feature at the same time to avoid a situation where customers bail to another provider to get it.
Blog text (12) -
A humble version of hotpot: you pick your own skewered vegetables and meat from the shelf (from RMB 1) and get staff to boil them together in chicken or pork broth.
Blog text (27) -
We enjoyed a delicious meat and potato hotpot that warmed us on the cold winter night.
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She prepared a traditional Lancashire hotpot for dinner, filled with tender meat and vegetables.
Synonyms
A thick soup or stew made from vegetables and sometimes meat, often eaten in the past
A stew of meat and potatoes cooked slowly in a covered pot
A hot dish where meat and vegetables cook slowly in a tasty liquid
A thick soup with meat and vegetables
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hotpot is simply the two words hot ('warm') and pot ('cooking pot'), so it brings to mind a steaming pot of food. That's why hotpot means a slow-cooked meat and potato stew made in one covered pot.