hot lead
Slang for gunfire
Hot lead refers to bullets or gunfire, from the metal's temperature when freshly fired: The outlaws fled under a hail of hot lead.
The phrase evokes old Western movies and pulp fiction.
In sales and marketing, a hot lead is a prospective customer showing strong buying signals—someone ready to close: Follow up on hot leads within 24 hours.
- bulletsFirearm projectiles
- molten metalHeated liquefied alloy
- melting pointLiquefaction threshold temperature
- gunfireDischarge of weapons
- gun battleArmed combat between opponents
casting · firefight · soldering · action-packed · ammunition · metallurgy · smelting · foundry · linotype · type metal · danger · newspaper · front page · crime · ingot · galley proof · alloy · intensity
hot leadcold steel
Edged weapons collectively
bare hands · fists · edged weapons · bladed weapons · sword
hot leadcold type
Typesetting without heated metal
phototypesetting · desktop publishing · offset printing · laser printing
hot leadcold trail
dead end · cold lead · false lead · old news · wild goose chase
hot, hotter, hottest, hotly, hotness, lead, leads, led, leading