The Collaborative International Dictionary
hot cross bun \hot" cross bun`\ (-b[u^]n`), n. A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; called also cross bun.
WordNet
n. moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze [syn: hot cross bun]
Usage examples of "cross bun".
As though on cue, the woman drew out from the oven a tin sheet on which a single hot-cross bun steamed.
I don't want plates of meat and two veg carried from the kitchen by waiters who don't know a herring from a hot-cross bun.
The boy sometimes struck him as effeminate in certain spontaneous gestures and word choices, and he certainly had no apparent interest in young ladies, but Wednesday after dinner, when a floridly handsome Decayed Gentleman beggar had cornered Jacky in the hall, calling him his little hot cross bun and trying to kiss him, Jacky had reacted not just with a firm refusal but with disgust, as if he considered all that sort of thing distasteful.
And I didn't pick it up again until he got to the hot cross bun part.
That is the deeper deposit of the solidified magma, hard as iron and as full of diamonds as currants in a hot cross bun.
There is one moment when she can choose direction, like standing on a chalk-drawn X, a hot cross bun, and she does not choose calm and measure.