1. hot button - Noun
2. hot button - Adjective
A central issue, concern or characteristic, especially one that motivates people to make a choice; sometimes also one that people seek to delay taking sides on.
Coordinate terms: hot potato, third rail
was a hot button
(marketing) The principal desire that a salesman needs to "hit" in order to make a sale.
An emotional trigger; something that arouses strong emotion or opinions.
hot button (comparative more hot button, superlative most hot button)
Alternative form of hot-button
a hot button issue
hot-button (plural hot-buttons)
Alternative form of hot button
hot-button (not comparable)
Arousing intense reactions; eliciting strong emotion or controversy.
a hot-button issue
The newspaper published articles on the hot-button issues on the front page to attract attention.
hot-button
When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?' Dane Cook
Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big. Hoda Kotb
Listening is the hard part. Listening is the important part. The hot button is in the prospect's response. Jeffrey Gitomer
After being elected speaker for the first time at the start of the 2019 session, Bonnen tapped Phelan to chair the powerful State Affairs Committee, which often oversees some of the state’s most hot-button issues. Source: Internet
After the refugee vote, there was another hot-button moment: The board chairman wanted to make Beltrami County a so-called Second Amendment sanctuary. Source: Internet
At 45, the former federal prosecutor, state representative and county recorder of deeds had been on the judiciary committee in the state Legislature and had tired of the conveyor belt of hot-button issues. Source: Internet