Talk:heat

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Rfv-sense: one or more guns. In response to effort to put burden of proof on those who argue that "pack heat" is an idiom because "heat" is this sense does not exist apart from "pack". The goals of this verification will be to show that "pack heat" is not a set phrase, using modification and coordination tests and our usual corpora: bgc, news, groups, COCA and BNC. This will go through rfv to harness the argumentation process to providing citations that are a lasting part of the entry. DCDuring TALK 19:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

See Wiktionary:English set phrases. DCDuring TALK 19:48, 4 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Cited by you, a few hours after you created this section. It looks good to me. :-)   —RuakhTALK 17:53, 14 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

RFV passed. —RuakhTALK 21:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

To add to entry

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

To add to this entry: why exactly the word "heat" is used to refer to a preliminary race. 173.88.246.138 20:36, 2 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

I suspect the sense development went from ‘a single instance of heating’ to ‘a single effort’ to ‘a single effort in a race or competition’. I’ve added the ‘single effort’ definition from Webster’s 1913 edition and supplied the quote attached there in our official format, using GoogleBooksOverlordnat1 (talk) 11:32, 16 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
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