hot tip
Whispered stock advice
A hot tip is a piece of insider information, especially one expected to yield quick profit or advantage.
The phrase appears most often in gambling and investing contexts, where someone might share a hot tip about a horse race or a stock poised to rise.
My broker gave me a hot tip on a biotech company.
The modifier hot suggests the information is fresh, urgent, and not yet widely known—though hot tips often prove unreliable.
- bettingStaking money on outcomes
- secretConcealed information
- trade secretHidden business knowledge
- off the recordNot meant for reporting
- recommendationAdvised course of action
stock market · insight · success · horse racing · dark horse · winning ticket · profit · suggestion · gambling · pointer · predictions · lead · exclusivity · tipster · discretion · advantage · scoop · informant
- temperature idiomscold shoulder, cold feet, cool as a cucumber, cold turkey, warm welcome
- trading slangbull, short, long, dip, pump
- hearsayrumor, gossip, hearsay, whisper, buzz
- insider infointel, inside track, scoop, leak, lowdown
- pyrographypyrography, wood burning, woodburning, wood burner, shading
- informationdata, facts, details, knowledge, intel
hot tipbum steer
Erroneous guidance, slang
bad advice · misinformation · false lead · red herring · wild goose chase
hot tippublic knowledge
Facts anyone can access
common knowledge · open secret · conventional wisdom · old news · yesterday's news
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