hotter

1. comparativecomparative form of hot: more hot

plural hotters

1. UKslangOne who steals a vehicle in order to joyride.

   Unable effectively to give chase to the hotters for fear of endangering the lives of pedestrians and motorists, the police had been forced to play a waiting game[…]

   1992, David P. Waddington, Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder, page 209

2. An industrial worker employed to heat something.

   It was soon recognised that women rivet hotters complained the most; not only was this hot work, but noisy and dirty too.

   2012, Peter Timms, In and Around Swindon Works

present singular third person hotters · participle present hottering · participle past hottered · past hottered

1. Northern EnglandUKdateddialectalTo vibrate; to rattle.

   The jolting, hottering motion of the waggon, the splashing of the water, and the dark and narrow passage, all concur to produce a strange effect […]

   1833, Thomas Sopwith, An account of the mining districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham, page 137