Meanings
plural hot-doggeries
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of hot doggery.
But aerials has developed into a serious discipline that borrows much from gymnastics. It is two parts hot-doggery to one part Nadia Comaneci, with Isaac Newton keeping everybody honest.
2010 February 1, Henry Fountain, “Up in the Air, and Down, With a Twist”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 20103 more examples
The lake country is a holiday paradise. All the water sports are practiced. Life is lively without being raucous, the landscape is unblemished by gas stations, souvenir stands, or hot-doggeries.
1967, Lawrence Martin, Sylvia Martin, “[Austria] The Vacationland”, in Europe: The Grand Tour! An Uncommon Guide, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 304By night, it must be admitted, the place is something of a horror, with its endless repetitive bars and strip-joints and hot-doggeries and battalions of barkers competing with the howl of the discotheques.
1969, the editors of Time-Life Books, “New Orleans”, in The USA: A Visitor’s Handbook, Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter 2 (Famous Cities), page 160Two Chicago hot-doggeries are well worth a little extra travel. The first is Superdawg Drive-In, on the northwest side of the city[…], a 1950s-style flashback distinguished by giant hot dogs dressed as Tarzan and Jane [Porter] dancing on the roof.
2009, Holly Hughes with Charlie O’Malley, “Windy City Wieners: Show Stealing Hot Dogs: Chicago, Illinois”, in Frommer’s 500 Places for Food & Wine Lovers, 1st edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, pages 41–42
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