hot-making

English

Adjective

hot-making (comparative more hot-making, superlative most hot-making)

1. (dated) embarrassing
   • 1934, James Agate, First Nights, page 26:

     "Now gather, and surmise," said Polonius. The reader will have to do his own gathering and surmising in connection with this, to use the current phrase, hot-making play.