hot pot

noun

1
: a stew of meat and vegetables
2

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Kelly says her favorite hot pot ingredients are beef, lamb, seaweed knots and noodles, which are added towards the end to soak up all the previously flavors. Lawrence Yee, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025 Sacramento County inspectors shut down a local hot pot restaurant and a Fijian grocery store due to cockroach and rat infestations. Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025 Based in Asian cultures, hot pot typically consists of various meats, mushrooms, Bok choy and other ingredients. Christopher Murray, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024 Meals at Lily Zhou’s Arden Arcade hot pot restaurant are sit-down spectacles, tables of friends and couples swishing raw meat and vegetables through bowls of boiling broth. Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot pot

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of hot pot was in 1842

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“Hot pot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20pot. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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