baking hot
adj1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baking, hot: very hot in a way that involves baking (in an oven or as if in an oven).
- Near-synonyms: roasting, baked
- Watch out for that exhaust pipe! It's baking hot!
1 more example
- Watch out — the chrome parts of the car are baking hot from the sun.
2
Broadly, Idiomatic Very hot.
- Near-synonyms: smoking hot, boiling hot, piping hot, scalding hot, steaming hot, steaming; see also Thesaurus:hot
- I've got to get out of this coat! I'm baking hot!
1 more example
- The weather was baking hot.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published 1954, II. v., page 121:
- Related terms
- baked goods, bake oven