1608. Shakspeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iii., 11. Besides what hotter hours, Unregistered in vulgar fame you have Luxuriously picked out.
1614. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii., 1. The whelp was hot and eager.
1693. Congreve, Old Bachelor, v., 8. If either you esteem my friendship or your own safety, come not near that house—that corner house—that hot brothel.
1697. Vanbrugh, Relapse, iii., 5. Young men are hot, I know, but they don’t boil over at that rate.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., iv., 123. He laughs to see the girls so hot.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 37. As most of our plays are now cribbed from the French, wy they’re all pooty hot.
2. (colloquial).—Careless of decorum; boisterous; utterly reckless and abandoned.
1888. J. Runciman, The Chequers, p. 187. You’re a red-hot member!
3. (thieves’).—Well known to the police; dangerous; uncomfortable; e.g., To make it hot for one.
1830. Buckstone, Wreck Ashore, i., 4. Mil. This place is now too hot for me, captain. Bills overdue, and bailiffs in full chase, have driven me to a hasty leave of my home.