Definition of "boiling hot" in Englisch

Adjective

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boiling,‎ hot: very hot in a way that involves boiling of water or other liquids.

   • Ouch! Don't sip your tea quite yet — it's still boiling hot!

2. Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature).

   • Back then, if you were a regular person living in the Deep South, you were going to be boiling hot all summer long, no two ways about it — nobody but rich people had central air at home back then.