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plural hotters
(UK, slang) One who steals a vehicle in order to joyride. quotations
Unable effectively to give chase to the hotters for fear of endangering the lives of pedestrians and motorists, the police had been forced to play a waiting game […]
1992, David P. Waddington, Contemporary Issues in Public Disorder, page 209
third-person singular simple present hotters, present participle hottering, simple past and past participle hottered
(UK, dialect, Northern England, dated) To vibrate; to rattle. quotations examples
The jolting, hottering motion of the waggon, the splashing of the water, and the dark and narrow passage, all concur to produce a strange effect […]
1833, Thomas Sopwith, An account of the mining districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham, page 137