(UK, slang) One 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:
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:
(Northern-England, UK, dated, dialectal) To 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: