Phrase guide

hot dog

intj · noun · verb · 13 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhɒtˈdɒɡ/
  • General-American: /ˌhɑtˈdɔɡ/
  • General-American: /-ˈdɑɡ/
  • Canada: /ˌhɑtˈdɑɡ/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒt.dɒɡ/
  • General-American: /ˈhɑt.dɔɡ/
  • General-American: /-dɑɡ/
  • Canada: /ˈhɑt.dɑɡ/
  • Boston, New-England: /ˈhʌt.dɒɡ/
  • Boston, New-England: [ˈhʌʔ.dɒːɡ]
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒtdɒɡ

1

intj

Meaning 1

An expression of delight or enthusiasm.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

intj

Meaning 2

An expression of disappointment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A sausage, typically a frankfurter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Don't forget to buy some hot dogs to grill and some buns to put them on.
  • Hot dogs and beans are a traditional favorite.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: frankfurter, frank, frankfurt, wiener, weenie, glizzy, tube steak, pimp steak, red hot

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A food item (dish) consisting of a frankfurter or wiener and (usually) a hot dog bun, with toppings such as ketchup, mustard, relish, sauerkraut, onions, cheese, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • He ordered a hot dog with everything on it.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: frankfurter, frank, frankfurt, wiener, weenie, glizzy, tube steak, pimp steak, red hot

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A battered, deep-fried sausage or saveloy on a stick; a corn dog.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: New-Zealand

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a long rectangle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, informal

Topics: education

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The penis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: wiener, anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, dingaling, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hot dog, hot rod, hoo-hoo, hooter, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, job, jock, johnson, John Thomas, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love stick, love truncheon, love sausage, love wand, machine, magnum, Master John Goodfellow, male member, manhood, man-meat, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meatstick, meat stick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, package, pecker, peen, peener, pee-pee, pee-wee, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, p-word, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (q, colloquial, Yiddish), short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widgie, widdler, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A sexually suggestive physical gesture involving movement of the hips.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang, vulgar

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To perform a dangerous or difficult act or stunt as a display of skill or daring, especially in surfing and other sports.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: show off

11

noun

Meaning 11

a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: frank, frankfurter, hotdog, dog, wiener, wienerwurst, weenie

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sausage

Narrower terms: Vienna sausage

12

noun

Meaning 12

a frankfurter served hot on a bun

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hotdog, red hot

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sandwich

Narrower terms: chili dog

13

noun

Meaning 13

someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hotdog

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: exhibitionist, show-off

History

Etymology

From hot + dog, in reference to the supposed source of the meat, both in the senses of the food item (noun senses 1 and 2) and of a show-off (noun sense 3). First attested in 1884 in the Evansville (Indiana) Daily Courier.

Across languages

Translations

125 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: salsiçe — frankfurter in a bun
  • Albanian: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Arabic: هُوت دُوج — frankfurter in a bun
  • Arabic: هوت دوق (hōt dōg, hut dug) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Armenian: հոթ դոգ (hotʻ dog) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Azerbaijani: hot-doq — frankfurter in a bun
  • Belarusian: хот-до́г (xot-dóh) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Bengali: হট ডগ (hoṭ ḍog) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Bulgarian: хот-до́г (hot-dóg) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Bulgarian: хот до́г (hot dóg) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Burmese: ဟော့ဒေါ့ (hau.dau.) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Catalan: entrepà de frankfurt — frankfurter in a bun
  • Chinese Cantonese: 熱狗 /热狗 (jit6 gau2) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Chinese Mandarin: 熱狗 /热狗 (règǒu) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Czech: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Czech: hotdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Danish: hotdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Danish: varm hund — frankfurter in a bun
  • Danish: pølse med brød — frankfurter in a bun
  • Dutch: hotdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Dzongkha: ཧོཊ་ཌོག (hoṭ ḍog) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Esperanto: kolbasobulko — frankfurter in a bun
  • Esperanto: hotdogo — frankfurter in a bun
  • Estonian: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Finnish: nakkisämpylä — frankfurter in a bun
  • Finnish: hodari — frankfurter in a bun
  • Finnish: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • French: hot-dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • French: chien chaud — frankfurter in a bun
  • French: roteux — frankfurter in a bun
  • Georgian: ჰოთ-დოგი (hot-dogi) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Georgian: ჰოთდოგი (hotdogi) — frankfurter in a bun
  • German: Bratwurst im Brötchen — frankfurter in a bun
  • German: Hotdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • German: Hot Dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Greek: χοτ ντογκ (chot ntogk) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Hebrew: נקניקייה — frankfurter in a bun
  • Hebrew: נַקְנִיקִיָּה (naknikiyá) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Hindi: होट डोग (hoṭ ḍog) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Hindi: हॉट-डॉग (hŏṭ-ḍŏg) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Hungarian: hotdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Icelandic: pylsa — frankfurter in a bun
  • Indonesian: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Italian: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Italian: cane caldo — frankfurter in a bun
  • Italian: cagnolino caldo — frankfurter in a bun
  • Japanese: ホットドッグ (hottodoggu) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Japanese: ホットドック (hottodokku) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Kazakh: хот-дог (xot-dog) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Korean: 핫도그 (hatdogeu) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Kyrgyz: хот-дог (hot-dog) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Latvian: hotdogs — frankfurter in a bun
  • Lithuanian: dešrainis — frankfurter in a bun
  • Macedonian: хот-дог (hot-dog) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Malay: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Marathi: हॉट डॉग (hŏṭ ḍŏg) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Navajo: achʼííʼ yázhí sidohí — frankfurter in a bun
  • Navajo: atsįʼ níyizí — frankfurter in a bun
  • Navajo: achʼííʼ yázhí — frankfurter in a bun
  • Norman: caûd tchian — frankfurter in a bun
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pølse — frankfurter in a bun
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pølse i brød — frankfurter in a bun
  • Iranian Persian: هات داگ (hât dâg) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Iranian Persian: هاتداگ (hât-dâg) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Polish: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Portuguese: cachorro-quente — frankfurter in a bun
  • Portuguese: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Portuguese: cachorro — frankfurter in a bun
  • Romanian: hotdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Romanian: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Russian: хот-до́г (xot-dóg) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Serbo-Croatian: хо̏тдог — frankfurter in a bun
  • Serbo-Croatian: hȍtdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Slovak: párok v rožku — frankfurter in a bun
  • Slovak: hotdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Slovak: hot dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Slovene: hotdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Spanish: perrito caliente — frankfurter in a bun
  • Spanish: perro caliente — frankfurter in a bun
  • Spanish: italiano — frankfurter in a bun
  • Spanish: completo — frankfurter in a bun
  • Spanish: pancho — frankfurter in a bun
  • Spanish: chévere — frankfurter in a bun
  • Spanish: shuco — frankfurter in a bun
  • Swedish: korv med bröd — frankfurter in a bun
  • Swedish: varmkorv — frankfurter in a bun
  • Tagalog: hatdog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Tajik: ҳот дог — frankfurter in a bun
  • Thai: ฮอตดอก (hɔ́t-dɔ̀ɔk) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Turkish: sosisli sandviç — frankfurter in a bun
  • Ukrainian: хот-до́г (xot-dóh) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Urdu: ہاٹ ڈاگ (hāṭ ḍāg) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Uyghur: خوتدوگ (xotdog) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Uzbek: hot-dog — frankfurter in a bun
  • Vietnamese: bánh mì kẹp xúc xích — frankfurter in a bun
  • Welsh: ci poeth — frankfurter in a bun
  • Yiddish: וווּרשטל (vurshtl) — frankfurter in a bun
  • Armenian: նրբերշիկ (nrberšik) — sausage
  • Bulgarian: кре́нвирш (krénvirš) — sausage
  • Chinese Cantonese: 熱狗腸 /热狗肠 — sausage
  • Chinese Mandarin: 熱狗腸 /热狗肠 (règǒucháng) — sausage
  • Danish: pølse — sausage
  • Esperanto: frankfurto — sausage
  • Finnish: nakki — sausage
  • Hungarian: virsli — sausage
  • Italian: salsiccia — sausage
  • Italian: würstel — sausage
  • Japanese: ソーセージ (sōsēji) — sausage
  • Japanese: フランクフルト (furankufuruto) — sausage
  • Macedonian: виршла (viršla) — sausage
  • Navajo: achʼííʼ yázhí sidohí — sausage
  • Navajo: atsįʼ níyizí — sausage
  • Portuguese: salsicha — sausage
  • Russian: соси́ска (sosíska) — sausage
  • Serbo-Croatian: вѝршла — sausage
  • Serbo-Croatian: хрѐно̄вка — sausage
  • Serbo-Croatian: vìršla — sausage
  • Serbo-Croatian: hrènōvka — sausage
  • Spanish: salchicha — sausage
  • Spanish: vienesa — sausage
  • Swedish: varmkorv — sausage
  • Swedish: grillkorv — sausage
  • Swedish: korv — sausage
  • Finnish: huimapää — show-off or daredevil
  • Spanish: temerario — show-off or daredevil