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hotdoggery en · NOUN

Etymology

From hotdog + -ery.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of hot doggery.
   alt of hot doggery
   • Hotdoggeries and other concession stands are common at motocross tracks. 1973 July, Toledo Hanson, “How to Be a Happy Spectator”, in Pete Szilagyi, editor, Motocross Action Magazine, Encino, Calif.: Hi-Torque Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 3:
   • The French had never bothered to commercialize the Forest of Compiègne with roadside soft-drink stands or hotdoggeries, but there were many things to do in the 15,000 protected hectares. 1970, Leslie Waller, chapter 8, in The American: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60:
   • Carmel will become more ordinary, in contrast, as the Big Sur country is developed, when the highway is through. I fear hotdoggeries along that road. How can they be stopped? And the glaring, lying signs with them? 1931 April 9, Frederick O’Brien, “On Paper Wings”, in J. A. Coughlin, editor, The Carmelite, volume 4, number 9, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif.: J. A. Coughlin, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

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