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boiling hot (not comparable)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boiling,‎ hot: very hot in a way that involves boiling of water or other liquids.

   Hypernym: hot

   Coordinate term: smoking hot

   Near-synonyms: scalding hot, piping hot

   Ouch! Don't sip your tea quite yet — it's still boiling hot!

2. (idiomatic, loosely) Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature).

   Hypernym: hot

   Near-synonyms: scalding hot, piping hot, smoking hot

   Back then, if you were a regular person living in the Deep South, you were going to be boiling hot all summer long, no two ways about it — nobody but rich people had central air at home back then.