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 seat, hot and/or seat:

    “The fact that the mental health establishment has equated separation with health, equated women’s morality with soft-heartedness, and placed mothers on the psychological hot seat has taken a toll on modern mothers.”
    —Ron Taffel (20th century)

    “A woman is like a teabag—only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”
    —Nancy Reagan (b. 1923)

    “Off Highway 106
    At Cherrylog Road I entered
    The ‘34 Ford without wheels,
    Smothered in kudzu,
    With a seat pulled out to run
    Corn whiskey down from the hills,”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)