red hots

Spicy little sweets

Red hots are small, cinnamon-flavored candies, bright red and intensely spicy-sweet.

The name also applies to hot dogs, especially at ballparks and street vendors: I'll take two red hots with mustard.

The candy sense dominates in most contexts, the hot dog sense in Chicago and other urban areas.

Related
  • fireballsBrilliant burning meteors
  • cinnamonAromatic bark spice
  • treatSomething pleasantly special
  • dogsDomesticated barking mammals
  • sugarCrystalline carbohydrate sweetener

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Categories
Opposites
spiciness/heat intensity

red hotsmild

Moderate in intensity

bland · cooling · sweet · plain · unseasoned

flavor sensation

red hotspeppermints

Cool-flavored hard candies

mints · ice chips · wintergreen · breath mints · Altoids

temperature association (for hot dogs)

red hotscold cuts

Precooked sliced meats

deli meats

Family

red, hot, reds, hots, redder, reddest, redden, reddish, redness

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G