hot property

English

Etymology

From sense hot (“illegal, stolen”) – compare hot check (“fraudulent check”).

Noun

hot property (usually uncountable, plural hot properties)

  1. Stolen goods.
  2. Something that is highly sought after.
    • 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 169:
      There was Nimmi (pronounced Neemi), a honey-coloured, nymph-like beauty. She had done a lascivious mating dance in an Indian technicolour epic called Aan, and she was hot property at the box office.

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