Hot or the acronym HOT may refer to:

Food and drink

Pungency Pungency () refers to the taste of food commonly referred to as spiciness, hotness or heat, found in foods such as chili peppers. Highly pungent tastes may be experienced as unpleasant. The term piquancy () is sometimes applied to foods with a l ...

, in food, a spicy or hot quality *Hot, a wine tasting descriptor

Places

* Hot district, a district of Chiang Mai province, Thailand ** Hot subdistrict, a sub-district of Hot District, Thailand **

Tha Kham, Chiang Mai Tha Kham is a subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) in Hot District in the south of Chiang Mai Province Chiang Mai ( th, เชียงใหม่, ; nod, , ) is the largest Province (''changwat'') of Thailand. It lies in upper no ...

, also known as Hot, a town in Hot District, Chiang Mai province, Thailand * Hot, Albania, a village in the Malësi e Madhe municipality, Shkodër County, Albania

Music

H.O.T. H.O.T. (; pronounced "H. O. T.", acronym for Highfive Of Teenagers) was a South Korean boy band that was created by SM Entertainment in 1996. They are considered to be the first K-pop ''idol group'' and their successful formula became the model ...

pronounced "H. O. T.", (High-Five of Teenagers), a South Korean boy band * Hawaii Opera Theatre, an opera company in Honolulu, Hawaii * Hot (American vocal group), best known for 1977 hit "Angel in Your Arms" 1976–1980 *Hot 97, branding for hip-hop radio station

WQHT WQHT (97.1 FM, ''Hot 97'') is a commercial radio station, licensed to New York, New York, which broadcasts an urban contemporary music format. The station is owned by Mediaco Holding and operated by Emmis Communications under a shared servic ...

in New York City

Albums

* ''Hot'' (Freda Payne album), 1979 * ''Hot'' (Half Japanese album), 1995 * ''Hot'' (Inna album) or the title song (see below), 2009 * ''Hot'' (James Brown album) or the title song (see below), 1976 * ''Hot'' (Mel B album), 2000 * ''Hot'' (Paul Bley album), 1985 * ''Hot'' (Squirrel Nut Zippers album), 1996 * ''Hot'' (EP), by Taeyang, or the title song, 2008

Songs

* "Hot" (Avril Lavigne song), 2007 * "Hot" (Beatnuts song), 2004 * "Hot" (Inna song), 2008 * "Hot" (Pia Mia song), 2020 * "Hot" (Young Thug song), 2019 *"

Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved) "Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)" is a funk song by James Brown. Released as a single in December 1975, it reached #31 on the R&B chart. It uses the main riff from the David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 Jan ...

", by James Brown, 1975 *"Hot", by Aya Nakamura from '' Aya'', 2020 *"Hot!", by Lisa Lopes from '' Supernova'', 2001 *"Hot", by

Parah Dice Parah Dice is a Turkish (according to his profile on Spotify, Turkish) DJ and record producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically ...

, 2019 *"Hot", by Smash Mouth from '' Get the Picture?'', 2003 *"Hot", by Twice from '' Fancy You'', 2019

Transport

*Head-of-train device, a console for the

end-of-train device The end of train device (ETD), sometimes referred to as an EOT, flashing rear-end device (FRED) or sense and braking unit (SBU) is an electronic device mounted on the end of freight trains in lieu of a caboose. They are divided into three categ ...

High-occupancy toll lane A high-occupancy toll lane (or HOT lane) is a type of traffic lane or roadway that is available to high-occupancy vehicles and other exempt vehicles without charge; other vehicles are required to pay a variable fee that is adjusted in respons ...

, a variable toll payable by some road users *HOT, the IATA and FAA LID codes for

Memorial Field Airport Memorial Field Airport is located in City of Hot Springs, in Garland County, Arkansas, United States, southwest of Downtown Hot Springs. It serves nearby Hot Springs National Park. The airport is used for general aviation; airline flights are ...

in the state of Arkansas, US *HOT, the MTR station code for Ho Tin stop in Hong Kong, China *HOT, the National Rail code for

Henley-on-Thames railway station Henley-on-Thames railway station is a terminal railway station in the town of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The station is on the Henley-on-Thames branch line that links the towns of Henley and Twyford. It is down the line from Tw ...

in the county of Oxfordshire, UK

Other uses

* HOT Bowl or C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl, a college football game * HOT (missile), an anti-tank missile system (French: ) *A series of psychedelic phenethylamines: ** HOT-2 ** HOT-7 ** HOT-17 * Hawaii Ocean Time-series, an oceanographic time-series study *

Highly optimized tolerance In applied mathematics, highly optimized tolerance (HOT) is a method of generating power law behavior in systems by including a global optimization principle. It was developed by Jean M. Carlson and John Doyle in the early 2000s. For some syst ...

, a general framework for studying complexity *Higher-order thought, a concept in higher-order thought theories of consciousness * Hot (Israel), an Israeli cable company * Hawkes Ocean Technologies, a developer of deep sea equipment *Hot, cold, wet, and dry are aspects of the discredited theory of

humorism Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers. Humorism began to fall out of favor in the 1850s ...