hot stuff

noun

: someone or something unusually good

Synonyms

• beaut
• beauty
• bee's knees
• cat's meow
• corker
• crackerjack
• crackajack
• daisy
• dandy
• dilly
• doozy
• doozie
• doozer
• dream
• honey
• humdinger
• hummer
• jim-dandy
• knockout
• lollapalooza
• lulu [slang]
• nifty
• peach
• pip
• pippin
• ripper
• ripsnorter
• snorter
• sockdolager
• sockdologer
• standout
• sweetheart

Examples of hot stuff in a Sentence

His music was hot stuff back then.

The new guy in her office is hot stuff.

Recent Examples on the Web

There was a time when atomic clocks looked like pretty hot stuff. —David Szondy, New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025

At the time, Walk Score was hot stuff, building an online product that would quantify walkability by address. —Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025

But ketamine, as my colleagues Salvador Hernandez and Richard Winton reported earlier this year, has become hot stuff among the rich and famous. —Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024

By 1974, Kissinger, the brilliant, all-but-anonymous Harvard academic, was hot stuff. —Ted Koppel, CBS News, 7 May 2023

There are other clients, of course, but back in April, Ferri took all his hot stuff — and that of others — to historic downtown Sanford. —Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023

Katy Perry as a flaming hot Cheeto Look out, hot stuff coming through! —Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1894, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hot stuff

• dyestuff
• enough
• foodstuff
• handcuff
• rebuff
• tartuffe
• buff
• cuff
• duff
• fluff
• gruff
• hough