Hot or the acronym HOT may refer to:
Food and drink
- Pungency, in food, a spicy or hot quality
- Hot, a wine tasting descriptor
Places
- Hot district, a district of Chiang Mai province, Thailand
- Hot subdistrict, a sub-district of Hot District, Thailand
- Tha Kham, Chiang Mai, also known as Hot, a town in Hot District, Chiang Mai province, Thailand
- Hot, Albania, a village in the Malësi e Madhe municipality, Shkodër County, Albania
Music
- H.O.T. pronounced "H. O. T.", (High-Five of Teenagers), a South Korean boy band
- Hawaii Opera Theatre, an opera company in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Hot (American vocal group), best known for 1977 hit "Angel in Your Arms" 1976–1980
- Hot 97, branding for hip-hop radio station WQHT in New York City
Albums
- Hot (Freda Payne album), 1979
- Hot (Half Japanese album), 1995
- Hot (Inna album) or the title song (see below), 2009
- Hot (James Brown album) or the title song (see below), 1976
- Hot (Mel B album), 2000
- Hot (Paul Bley album), 1985
- Hot (Squirrel Nut Zippers album), 1996
- Hot (EP), by Taeyang, or the title song, 2008
Songs
- "Hot" (Avril Lavigne song), 2007
- "Hot" (Beatnuts song), 2004
- "Hot" (Inna song), 2008
- "Hot" (Pia Mia song), 2020
- "Hot" (Young Thug song), 2019
- "Hot" (Seventeen song), 2022
- "Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)", by James Brown, 1975
- "Hot", by Aya Nakamura from Aya, 2020
- "Hot!", by Lisa Lopes from Supernova, 2001
- "Hot", by Parah Dice, 2019
- "Hot", by Smash Mouth from Get the Picture?, 2003
- "Hot", by Twice from Fancy You, 2019
Transport
- Head-of-train device, a console for the end-of-train device
- High-occupancy toll lane, a variable toll payable by some road users
- HOT, the IATA and FAA LID codes for Memorial Field Airport in the state of Arkansas, US
- HOT, the MTR station code for Ho Tin stop in Hong Kong, China
- HOT, the National Rail code for Henley-on-Thames railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK
Other uses
- Hot (temperature)
- HOT Bowl or C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl, a college football game
- HOT (missile), an anti-tank missile system (French: Haut subsonique Optiquement Téléguidé)
- A series of psychedelic phenethylamines:
- Hawaii Ocean Time-series, an oceanographic time-series study
- Highly optimized tolerance, a general framework for studying complexity
- Higher-order thought, a concept in higher-order thought theories of consciousness
- Hot (Israel), an Israeli cable company
- Hawkes Ocean Technologies, a developer of deep sea equipment
- Hot, cold, wet, and dry are aspects of the discredited theory of humorism
- H.O.T. TV: Hindi Ordinaryong Tsismis, Philippine talk show