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    [Noun]  | "hot*house" | \ ˈhät-ˌhau̇s \


    1: a greenhouse maintained at a high temperature especially for the culture of tropical plants

    2: hotbed

    3: brothel


    Origin: 1556 ;

    [Noun]  | "hothouses" 


    1: a glass-enclosed building for growing plants;


      * e.g., " ... grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long "



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    2: a place or environment that favors the development of something;


      * e.g., " ... an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity "



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    [Noun]  | "hothouse" 


    1: a glass-enclosed building for growing plants;


      * e.g., " ... grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long "



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    2: a place or environment that favors the development of something;


      * e.g., " ... an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity "



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     [ "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 

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