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hot ziggety

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hot ziggety

  1. An expression of surprise or excitement
    • 2004, Eleanor Sullivan, Fifty Best Mysteries:
      Would you like the assignment?" Jacqueline raised her limpid blue eyes. "Would I like it?" she breathed. "Hot ziggety damn!" Houston sat back with a start.
    • 1991, Celestine Sibley, Ah, sweet mystery:
      There was all that "longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning, the idle hopes, the joys and tears," which, God knows, Kate had personally experienced. Hot ziggety, thought Kate gleefully.
    • 1947, Bill Mauldin, Back home:
      "Hot ziggety! A real one at last!"