hot property
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot check (“fraudulent check”).
Noun
[edit]hot property (usually uncountable, plural hot properties)
- Stolen goods.
- Something that is highly sought after.
- 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 169:
- There was Nimmi (pronounced Neemi), a honey-coloured, nymph-like beauty. She had done a lascivious mating dance in an Indian technicolour epic called Aan, and she was hot property at the box office.
Synonyms
[edit]- (stolen goods): See Thesaurus:booty