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Hot seat

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The electric chair. slang

    "Looks like you for the hot seat, kid. Come along, both of you."

  2. 2
    a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism wordnet
  3. 3
    The seat occupied by a game show contestant at a stage where they are answering questions alone.
  4. 4
    an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person wordnet
  5. 5
    Any stressful situation. broadly, figuratively

    "Now just a minute. You turn up out of nowhere, a routine space shot goes wrong, a new planet appears and you tell us you know all about it. That puts you slap bang in the hot seat, right?"

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  1. 6
    A multiplayer game mode where the players take turns playing the game. attributive

    "In addition to traditional LAN play and online modes, there's […] a hot seat mode in which multiple players take their turns on the same computer […]."

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