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hot (drink or food), served warm
Used to describe beverages or food that are served heated, as opposed to cold or iced.
ホット is a loanword from English "hot," used primarily to describe heated beverages and food items.
Compounds
- ホットコーヒー: hot coffee
- ホットミルク: hot milk
- ホットティー: hot tea
- ホットドッグ: hot dog
- ホットケーキ: hotcake (thick Japanese-style pancake)
- ホットチョコレート / ホットココア: hot chocolate
Common expressions
At cafes and restaurants: ホットとアイス、どちらになさいますか (Hot or iced?). You can say ホットで (hot, please) or アイスで (iced, please).
Similar words
Usage
Outside food and drink, ホット appears in a few borrowed senses (ホットな話題, a hot topic; ホットライン, a hotline), but never for temperature in general: hot weather is 暑い, hot to the touch is 熱い.