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Hot dang!
Meaning
- An enthusiastic expression of pleasure or excitement. It is a slightly cleaner version of saying a curse word when you are happy about an outcome.
Folksy, upbeat
Used in a sentence
- Hot dang, we finally got the tractor running again!
- Hot dang, I didn't think we'd make it to the concert on time.
- Hot dang, this pecan pie is absolutely perfect.
The backstory
This is a quintessential American colloquialism that plays with the word damn. By softening the end, it became a perfectly acceptable exclamation for rural or Southern contexts.
Heard in
The South
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