Usually means: Increase intensity or excitement rapidly.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot up: Merriam-Webster
  2. hot up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hot up: Vocabulary.com
  4. hot up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. hot up: Wiktionary
  6. hot up: Dictionary.com
  7. hot up: Rhymezone
  8. hot up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. hot up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. hot up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. hot up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hot up: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hot up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hot up)

▸ verb:  To heat up:
▸ verb:  (UK, Ireland) To increase in temperature.
▸ verb:  (UK, Ireland, informal) To become more heated.
▸ verb:  (UK, Ireland, informal) To make or become more sexually appealing, enticing or exciting.

Similar:
heat up, screw up, soup up, hop up, heat, turn up the heat, heaten, warm up, Hotten, warm, more...

Opposite:
cool down, chill out, calm down

Types:
jalapeno, habanero, ghost pepper, cayenne, serrano, more...

Adjectives:
white-hot, hot, hotbutton, hot button, hot on, torrid, hawt, red-hot, het, steaming hot, piping hot

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Similar:
heat up, screw up, soup up, hop up, heat, turn up the heat, heaten, warm up, Hotten, warm, more...

Opposite:
cool down, chill out, calm down

Types:
jalapeno, habanero, ghost pepper, cayenne, serrano, more...

Adjectives:
white-hot, hot, hotbutton, hot button, hot on, torrid, hawt, red-hot, het, steaming hot, piping hot



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