Usually means: Water heated beyond room temperature.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word hot water:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot water: Merriam-Webster
  2. hot water: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. hot water: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hot-water, hot-water: Wordnik
  5. hot water: Wiktionary
  6. hot water: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. hot water: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. hot water: Dictionary.com
  9. hot-water: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Hot Water (American Dad!), Hot Water (Jimmy Buffett album), Hot Water (album), Hot Water (disambiguation), Hot Water (novel), Hot Water (song), Hot Water, Hot water: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. hot water: Rhymezone
  12. Hot Water: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. hot water: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hot water: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hot water: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot water: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hot water: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hot_waters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hot water)

noun:  (idiomatic, figuratively) A dangerous situation; trouble.
noun:  (idiomatic, figuratively) Fierce criticism.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, water.

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