Hot Seat

The term hot seat or hotseat can refer to:

  • "Being in the hot seat", an expression for a high-pressure situation in which a great deal of attention and scrutiny is focused on a person or organization
  • Hot seat, a slang term for the electric chair
  • Hotseat (multiplayer mode), a multiplayer mode in computer games, where players take consecutive turns in a single "seat"
  • Hot Seat (talk show), a former syndicated politically oriented talk show in the United States
  • Hot Seat (game show), a former ABC game show in the United States
  • Hot seat, the term used for the contestant's chair on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
    • Millionaire Hot Seat, the 2009 relaunch of the Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
  • Hot Seat (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe

Famous quotes containing the words hot and/or seat:

    “Oh, you’ll love the sea. There’s something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, you’ll love it all. It’s a glorious kind of world. I couldn’t live without it.”
    —Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)

    “My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)