Usually means: Quickly passed to avoid responsibility.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word hot potato:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot potato: Merriam-Webster
  2. hot potato: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hot potato: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hot potato: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hot potato: Vocabulary.com
  6. hot-potato: Wordnik
  7. hot potato: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hot potato: Wiktionary
  9. hot potato: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hot potato: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hot Potato (game), Hot Potato (game show), Hot Potato (song), Hot Potato (video game), Hot potato (disambiguation), Hot potato (game), Hot potato, The Hot Potato: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. hot potato: Rhymezone
  13. hot potato: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hot potato: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hot potato: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. hot potato: Dictionary.com
  17. hot potato: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot potato, hot potato, hot potato: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hot Potato: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hot potato)

noun:  (uncountable) A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.
noun:  (countable, idiomatic) An awkward or delicate problem with which nobody wants to be associated.

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