hot mess
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- (US) IPA(key): /ˌhɑt ˈmɛs/
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hot mess (countable and uncountable, plural hot messes)
- (military) A warm meal, usually cooked in a large pot, often similar to a stew or porridge; service of such a heated meal to soldiers.
- 1836 April 29, Frederick Marryat, “Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend”, in Arkansas Advocate, volume vii, number 4, Little Rock, AR, page 1:
- "Smallbones," said the lieutenant, after trying the hot mess before him, and finding that he was still in danger of burning his mouth, "bring me the red-herring."
- 1980, William Manchester, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, page 260:
- The men there would have settled for a Coleman stove and a hot-mess line, but the greatest contribution to their spirits, plus or minus, was mail call.
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hot mess (plural hot messes)
- (slang, idiomatic, chiefly US) A situation or object in a state of extreme disarray.
- (slang, idiomatic, chiefly US) A disheveled or unbalanced person, particularly one who is nevertheless — or therefore — attractive.
- 2003, Karyn Bosnak, Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back, page 271:
- My hair had two months of roots exposed. My brows were overgrown. I was a hot mess. And I was fat.
- 2009, Cobra Starship, Hot Mess (song on the album Hot Mess):
- Well, you're a hot mess and I'm falling for you, and I'm like hot damn, let me make you my boo, […] You're a hot mess, I'm loving it, hell yes!
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