Usually means: Position of intense scrutiny or pressure.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word hot seat:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot seat, the hot seat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hot seat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hot seat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hot seat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hot seat: Vocabulary.com
  6. hot-seat: Wordnik
  7. hot seat: Wiktionary
  8. hot seat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. hot seat: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hot seat: Dictionary.com
  11. Hot Seat (G.I. Joe), Hot Seat (game show), Hot Seat (talk show), Hot seat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. hot seat: Rhymezone
  13. hot seat: Free Dictionary
  14. hot seat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hot seat: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hot seat: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hot seat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hot Seat: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hot_seating as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hot seat)

noun:  (slang) The electric chair.
noun:  The seat occupied by a game show contestant at a stage where they are answering questions alone.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) Any stressful situation.
noun:  (video games, attributive) A multiplayer game mode where the players take turns playing the game.

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