crash hotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Perhaps a nonstandard adverbial usage of crash (“extremely”) + hot (“performing well”).

発音

形容詞

crash hot (comparative more crash hot, superlative most crash hot)

1. (slang, Australia, New Zealand) Very good, excellent; very well.

   Well well well, don′t you look crash hot in your new sunnies?

   I'm sorry, boss. I can′t come in to work today: I′m not feeling too crash hot.

   • 1991, Antonio Casella, The Sensualist‎, page 28:

     Certainly Nick isn′t too crash hot on the old pen, something which he admits freely.

   • 2005, Elizabeth Woolsey Herbert, Horse Doctor: An American Vet's Life Down Under‎, page 11:

     I collected the semen, and while it didn′t look crash hot (Australian for “great”), it was okay.

   • 2006, Nick Ireland, The Popondetta Butterfly‎, page 65:

     In any event, Gout wasn′t the most crash hot golfer going around so he needed to use gamesmanship as much as he could.

   • 2010, Tanya McKechnie, Honour Bound, page 59:

     You should know that your reputation isn′t crash hot either. No-one likes you, Hicks.

使用する際の注意点

Apparently most often used in the negative as a form of sarcasm, e.g. "That doesn't smell crash hot, does it?!"

同意語

• brilliant, fantastic

形容詞

crash-hot (comparative more crash-hot, superlative most crash-hot)

1. (slang, Australia, New Zealand) Excellent; superb.
   • 2012, Fleur Beale, The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves:

     If she wanted me to be filming 24–7 then she wasn't setting a crash-hot example.

   • 2020, Claire McNab, The Quokka Question:

     Quip's wide shoulders drooped—he had a crash-hot body from going to the gym every day.