The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hot bulb \Hot bulb\, Hot pot \Hot pot\ (Internal-combustion Engines) See Semi-diesel, below.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context chiefly UK English) A stew of beef or lamb and potatoes. 2 A communal meal, popular in China, wherein diners share a hot bowl of broth or stock into which uncooked foods such as mushrooms, vegetables, and cuts of meat are dipped until they are cooked enough to be eaten. 3 (context countable English) A jacuzzi or hot tub n. 1 (context chiefly UK English) A stew of beef or lamb and potatoes. 2 A communal meal, popular in China, wherein diners share a hot bowl of broth or stock into which uncooked foods such as mushrooms, vegetables, and cuts of meat are dipped until they are cooked enough to be eaten. 3 (context countable English) A jacuzzi or hot tub
WordNet
n. a stew of meat and potatoes cooked in a tightly covered pot [syn: hotpot]
Wikipedia
Hot pot is a dish or style of cooking from China, Taiwan, and southeast Asia.
Hot pot may also refer to:
- Shabu-shabu, a Japanese dish in the hot pot style
- Lancashire hotpot, a traditional English stew of meat, potatoes and vegetables
- Hodge-Podge (soup)
- Karelian hot pot
- Hot Pot Music, a record label
- Everybody Speaks Nonsenses II – Hot Pot, a Taiwanese TV show
- A brand of electric kettle
- For the style of "hot pot" cooking that uses a clay pot, see Clay pot cooking
Hot pot (also known as steamboat in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and Brunei) refers to several East Asian varieties of stew, consisting of a simmering metal pot of stock at the center of the dining table. While the hot pot is kept simmering, ingredients are placed into the pot and are cooked at the table. Typical hot pot dishes include thinly sliced meat, leaf vegetables, mushrooms, wontons, egg dumplings, tofu and seafood. The cooked food is usually eaten with a dipping sauce. Hot pot meals are usually eaten in the winter during supper time.
Usage examples of "hot pot".
Jim stood where he was, at a reasonable distance from the hot pot.
Remember Elli's husband, who ended up bewitched by that small fat Wizard up at the Tower and got trapped in the hot pot?
Certainly, they cooked on their ships, and it would make sense to set a hot pot on a trivet to prevent wooden surfaces in the galley from getting burned.
On the way to the bus stop (she was now able to differentiate easily between Orange, Red, and Blue Line buses) they would probably pop into the Hot Pot for coffee.
Pam's unabashed shriek of amazement in the Hot Pot was worth all of that and more.
The man lifted the hot pot by its black handle, filled the two cups and pushed one toward me.
And then she went to the table and took his bowl of tea and felt of it and spilled the cool tea on the brick floor and filled the bowl again from the hot pot, and as she came she went, silent, and left him sitting there agape.
After I had emptied the hot pot into a pan and put this on the stove over a low light, I said, ".
Marrow plucked the hot pot pie with his bare fingerbones and set it on his bone table.