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hot doggery en · NOUN

Etymology

From hot dog + -ery.

Meanings

1. (countable) A hot dog shop.
   • One of the participants in the contest – a publicity bonanza for a certain well-known hot doggery – was William Perry, the football player who scored a touchdown in the 1986 Super Bowl and was known by the nom de guerre “The Refrigerator.” 2003 July 5, Michael Brick, “From Soup to Stickball, the 4th With a Twist”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
   • Back there in the rolling, olive-clad hills is a splendid region of whose existence most of the visitors to the Riviera are unaware. There are no garish restaurants or casinos, no hot doggeries or Slopsy-kola signs, no half-naked women or twitching varicose veins being paraded. 1960, Stephen Lister [pseudonym; Digby George Gerahty], chapter 12, in In Search of Paradise, London: Peter Davies, →OCLC, page 162:
   • They have painstakingly included not only the names of landmarks but also descriptions, details, history and color of institutions from the Hispanic Society of America (where there is a tile bearing the Star of David, taken from a synagogue in Toledo, Spain, that became a church after 1492) to Nathan’s famous hot doggery of Coney Island. 1964 August 15, “Books of The Times: End Papers; Jewish Landmarks in New York: An Informal History and Guide. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
2. (slang, uncountable) The behaviour of a hot-dogger, or sporting show-off.
   • Just this week, the bearded Ozzie Smith was told not to shave, but to stop doing acrobatic backflips before baseball games. Ozzie only does this once in a while, and no one seems to consider his behavior any sort of hot doggery. 1986 March 3, Mike Downey, “Next, They’ll Tell Magic Not to Smile”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2026:

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