hot pot

noun

1
: a stew of meat and vegetables
2

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For the past three decades, Korean BBQ, cold noodle and hot pot joints have cropped up across the county. Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024 For dinner, guests can expect corn and winter melon soup with prawn, sashimi, and conger eel hot pot. Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2024 Top One Hot Pot & Asian Cuisine A new Asian hot pot restaurant is now open in Mesa. Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024 Besides hot pots, the restaurant offers Korean barbecue items, dumplings, bao, noodle and rice dishes and Americanized Chinese wok entrees. Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hot pot 

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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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 2 Dec. 2024.

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