Meanings
nounhot property (usually uncountable, plural hot properties)
plural hot properties
- uncountableusuallySomething that is highly sought after.
There was Nimmi (pronounced Neemi), a honey-coloured, nymph-like beauty. She had done a lascivious mating dance in an Indian technicolour epic called Aan, and she was hot property at the box office.
1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 169
Synonyms & antonyms
nounStolen goods.
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Origin
From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot check (“fraudulent check”).
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