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.
Cross-bun \Cross"-bun`\ (-b[u^]n`), n. A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; also, called {hot cross bun}, even when not hot.
Wiktionary
n. A bun, made with yeast and containing spices, currants and candied fruit, with a cross marked on the top, traditionally eaten on Good Friday in Christian countries.
WordNet
n. moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze [syn: cross bun]
Wikipedia
A hot cross bun is a spiced sweet bun made with currants or raisins, marked with a cross on the top, and traditionally eaten on Good Friday in Australia, British Isles, Canada, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and some parts of America. The buns mark the end of Lent and different parts of the hot cross bun have a certain meaning, including the cross representing the crucifixion of Jesus, and the spices inside signifying the spices used to embalm him at his burial. They are now available all year round in some places. Hot cross buns may go on sale in Australia and New Zealand as early as New Year's Day or after Christmas.
Usage examples of "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.