hot corner

noun

, Baseball.

1. third base ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of hot corner¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The trenches are filled in at this point now, so that the roads may be used, but the place was once an exceedingly hot corner.

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When one gets into such a hot corner as this was, one has not much time to mind his neighbours.

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Sir Colin was determined to make Lucknow a hot corner, and to relieve it if possible.

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Place the point of the cold stem on the anvil and strike on the hot corner.

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Of course they come to me to back him up,—a peculiarly hot corner to put a fellow in.

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