Please define "Hot Mess"

[Anonymous]

I am pretty hip, if I do say so myself
But this whole "hot mess" term has got me totally confused. How do you define it?

[Anonymous]

Exactly what it sounds like. A complete mess or disaster. This can mean looks or the way a person acts. Check out urban dictionary.

[Anonymous]

I assumed that "hot" meant they were attractive.

[Anonymous]

Pamela Anderson

[Anonymous]

A mess X 2. A big ole mess. A mess and a half. A mess that's "hot" because it's popping right now, all over the place.

[Anonymous]

It's more serious than a regular mess, but not bad enough to be a catastrophe.

Lindsay Lohan is a Catastrophe

Britney Spears is a Hot Mess

[Anonymous]

I heard this southern slang for the first time last year, and love the term! I always picture a big mess on the stove, all boiled over = hot mess. Then someone else told me it was more like a steaming turd = hot mess. I like my mental picture better.

[Anonymous]

I also thought it was typically used for an attractive woman that does not have her sh*t together...good examples were provided by pp--Britney, Pam Andersen, LiLo, even Marilyn Monroe.

[Anonymous]

Check out the website Hot Ghetto Mess. But don't tell anyone I referred you-I'll deny it in court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also thought it was typically used for an attractive woman that does not have her sh*t together...good examples were provided by pp--Britney, Pam Andersen, LiLo, even Marilyn Monroe.

Exactly!! I think there's usually a bit of fondness/admiration mixed in with the assessment that someone (usually a woman) is in a bad place and doesn't have her sh*t toghether.

By the way, this phrase always reminds me of Christian WhatsHisName who won Project Runway a few seasons back. He cracked me up!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard this southern slang for the first time last year, and love the term! I always picture a big mess on the stove, all boiled over = hot mess. Then someone else told me it was more like a steaming turd = hot mess. I like my mental picture better.

It's not southern slang.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard this southern slang for the first time last year, and love the term! I always picture a big mess on the stove, all boiled over = hot mess. Then someone else told me it was more like a steaming turd = hot mess. I like my mental picture better.

It's not southern slang.

It should be. This would be a good phrase to add to the lexicon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard this southern slang for the first time last year, and love the term! I always picture a big mess on the stove, all boiled over = hot mess. Then someone else told me it was more like a steaming turd = hot mess. I like my mental picture better.

It's not southern slang.

It should be. This would be a good phrase to add to the lexicon.

I'm from Chicago and everyone there says this. Certainly not south.

[Anonymous]

"Hot Mess" sounds like a bad case of uncontrollable "diarrhea."

[Anonymous]

I think my picture's next to it in the dictionary.