Noun	1.	hot air - air that has been heated and tends to rise air - a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of; "air pollution"; "a smell of chemicals in the air"; "open a window and let in some air"; "I need some fresh air"
	2.	hot air - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" empty talk, empty words, palaver, rhetoric hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning

hot air

noun empty talk, rant, guff (slang), bombast, wind, gas (informal), verbiage, claptrap (informal), blather, bunkum (chiefly U.S.), blether, bosh (informal), tall talk (informal) His justification for the merger was just hot air.

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hot air n (fam, pej) → ciance fpl

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Hot air isn't as good as gas, for if the air should get cold the balloon would come down in the desert, and we should be lost.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

The previous evening each furnace had been charged with 114,000 pounds weight of metal in bars disposed cross-ways to each other, so as to allow the hot air to circulate freely between them.

From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context

Look at your brother, a-runnin' around to socialist meetin's, an' chewin' hot air, an' diggin' up extra strike dues to the union that means so much bread out of the mouths of his children, instead of makin' good with his bosses.

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