1841. Tait’s Edinburgh Mag., viii., 217. Finding all too hot to hold him.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Hot. The cove had better move his beaters into Dewsville, it is too hot for him here.
1882. Evening Standard, 3 Oct., p. 5, c. 4. The Constable added that at the station the Prisoner told him that if he did not make it too hot he would give him £5.
1888. Tit Bits, 24 Mar., 373. The hottest suburb of London during Jubilee year was supposed to be Ealing.
1890. Marriott-Watson, Broken Billy (in Under the Gum-tree, p. 31). With a few pals, almost as brutal as himself, he made the place pretty hot from time to time.
1891. Morning Advertiser, 26 Mar., p. 2, col. 4. When Baker was arrested he asked Detective-sergeant Gold not to make it too hot for them, and tried to induce the officer to receive a sovereign.
1891. J. Newman, Scamping Tricks, p. 36. You’ll find they will make it hot for you.
4. (colloquial).—See quot. 1690. Also violent; sharp; severe.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. hot, exceeding Passionate.
1886. R. L. Stevenson, Kidnapped, p. 167. ‘Well,’ said he, ‘yon was a hot burst, David.’