A hot dog is a long sausage in a long soft bun. Buy a hot dog.
The name is a joke from the nineteenth century about what the sausages might contain. A hot dog stand is the standard picture of American street food anywhere in the world.
1phrasehot dogA long sausage in a long soft bun, sold at street stands.
“The hot dog cost more than the ticket to the game had.”
hot dog is a food.
Also accepted in games: hotdog
Hot plus dog, from a nineteenth-century joke about the supposed contents of cheap sausages.
From hot + dog. From hot + dog, in reference to the supposed source of the meat, both in the senses of the food item (noun senses Q131419 and Q181055) and of a show-off (show-off). 1884 in the Evansville (Indiana) Daily Courier.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Food & Drink