hot favourite
Odds-on likely champion
A hot favourite is the competitor or choice most strongly expected to win.
In betting contexts, the hot favourite has the shortest odds: The defending champion is the hot favourite for this year's title.
Hot intensifies favourite to suggest near-certainty in popular or expert opinion.
Chiefly British spelling; American English uses hot favorite.
- odds-onLikely to win
- safe betLikely winning wager
- pickPointed breaking tool
- front-runnerLikely winner
- contenderOne competing seriously
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