noun Internet Slang

hot take

· noun · internet

A short, deliberately provocative opinion fired off for reaction.

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Definitions

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An opinion pitched to feel daring, often half-baked, usually posted without the receipts to back it up. The temperature is the point, not the truth. Increasingly used self-deprecatingly to soften a real argument.

“Hot take: every Christopher Nolan film is twenty minutes too long.”
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hot take In A Sentence

Hot take: every Christopher Nolan film is twenty minutes too long.

Origin & Usage

Sports media slang from the early 2010s for snap reactions from pundits; jumped to Twitter and never left.

Variants hot-takehottake

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