Meaning of hot seat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The electric chair.
   slang
2. The seat occupied by a game show contestant at a stage where they are answering questions alone.
3. Any stressful situation.
   broadly, figuratively
4. A multiplayer game mode where the players take turns playing the game.
   attributive

Examples

“Looks like⟳ you for the hot seat, kid. Come⟳ along, both of you.”

“With deep creases slanting across the jowls of his dark bony face⟳ from the corners of his wide full mouth, and his sunken dark eyes, he was certainly a prime subject for the artists who sketch⟳ candidates for the hot seat for the tabloids, and for three days they had been making the most of it.”

“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?”

“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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