" hothouses "

 [ "hothouse flower" ]

1: A hothouse flower is flower that isn't hardy enough to grow under natural conditions. It has to be pampered and grown in a greenhouse or hothouse.

  * e.g.,  ... "She's the kinda girl you have to give space. A real hothouse flower. Turn the heat on her too much and she's outta there." 

 [ "hothouse flower" ]

2: In regard to people it's used to describe someone who needs pampering or special conditions.

  * e.g.,  ... "He's kind of a hothouse plant. If he doesn't draw everyday he just wilts into depression." 

 [ "hothouse flower" ]

3: It doesn't exclusively mean high maintenance, but, needing special circumstances on some level to flourish, grow, be happy, or stable.

  * e.g.,  ... (Nicholas Nickleby, 1838)"Mrs. Witterly is of a very excitable nature, very delicate, very fragile, a hothouse plant." 

 [ "Hothouse Hopping" ]

1: Going to the greenhouse with your friends, buying a bunch of flowers, and then shitty bar hopping on the way home

  * e.g.,  ... “We had some killer hothouse hopping today!!” 

 [ "alligator hothouse" ]

1: Common occurrence at temporary, Southern out-houses, port-a-pottys and festival dump trucks. The act of having one's genitals grabbed, pulled and bitten from a false bottom cut into said port-a-John.

  * e.g.,  ... Karl tried to lure me into an alligator hothouse at the V fest. 

 [ "hothouse" ]

1: absolutely sexy

  * e.g.,  ... paige you are one hothouse