'hotdog' is a legitimate and widely used word in written English.
You can use it to refer to both the food item (i.e. a sausage served in a bun) and a person who performs daring stunts and tricks in a sport or recreational activity. For example: "My brother was a professional skateboarder; he was an amazing hotdog."
As Joanna Biggs points out in her fabulous just-published oral history of Britain at work, All Day Long: "The nation of shopkeepers has become a nation of disappointed bakers and momentarily cheerful hotdog men.
And it gives no hint of Tokyo's extraordinary array of fast-food options—a glorious burst of taste and experience at best, a monstrous affront if it's four o'clock in the morning, your lover has left you, and the convenience store shelves have run out of all but yakisoba dog (cold fried noodles in a hotdog bun).For a fleeting visitor, the Tokyo food experience is a life-changing one.
Today he operates a hotdog cart across the street from where the towers once stood.
My friend was asked to deep throat a hotdog for free drinks".
Ride round the perimeter of the island before enjoying drink and a hotdog on the man-made beach, which has spectacular views of Manhattan.
There's nothing quite like an authentic Chicago hotdog.
It will hit everything - including our policing of the grotty hotdog stands that we had forced out of the borough".
Puffing away like a steam train on something that looks like a slightly rude, burnt hotdog and requires a Churchill-esque underbite to hold in your mouth is simply not a feminine thing to do.
I popped along not once, but twice to a well-known hotdog joint this week that does a sideline in furniture: Ikea, the huge blue monster squatting by the dual carriageway that swallows you up and spits you out three hours later, exhausted, disorientated, £300 lighter and clutching a consolation pork snack.
'Oh, yeah, I made them all wear hotdog suits.
http://www.saatchigallery.com/gallerymess/ Sure to please kids and grown-ups alike is Top Dog, the new US hotdog joint to open in Soho in April this year.
