(of a person or animal) to be hot / (informal, figuratively) to have a near miss

hot chocolate

(Quebec, Louisiana) hot dog

(geology) hot spot

chaud-froid

(zoology, dated, of an animal) warm-blooded, endothermic, homeothermic

(informal) to have a narrow escape, to have a close call, to dodge a bullet

(informal) (transitive with à) to gladden someone's heart, to warm the cockles of someone's heart, to do someone's heart good, to be heart-warming

(simile) hot as blazes; red-hot; on fire

(simile, informal) champing at the bit / (simile, informal) hot to trot, up for it, gagging for it