hotdog

1. 1
   noun

   Alternative spelling of hot dog.

   He topped his hotdog with grilled onions and spicy mustard.

   The concession stand ran out of hotdogs well before the final inning.

   Note

   The one-word spelling carries the full range of the two-word noun: the sausage, the sausage in its bun, and the show-off on a surfboard or skis. In New Zealand it names a battered sausage on a stick. In informal American usage it describes paper folded in half lengthwise. It combines freely, as in hotdog bun, and its plural is simply hotdogs. One slang use is vulgar, so context matters.

2. 2
   verbslang

   Alternative form of hot dog.

   Surfers often hotdog when a big audience gathers on the beach.

   The coach told him to stop trying to hotdog and stick to the basics.

   Note

   Slang from the sports world, where surfers, skiers and skateboarders show off with risky stunts. The closed spelling makes the verb easy to inflect: hotdogs, hotdogging, hotdogged, with the final g doubled. It takes no object. You hotdog, but you do not hotdog something. It sits naturally beside the show-off sense of the noun spelling.

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