Dictionary  hot' bed"Metalworking. an area having rails or rolls on which rolled pieces are laid to cool. hot•bedPronunciation: (hot'bed"), [key] —n., v., -bed•ded, -bed•ding. —n. 1. a bottomless, boxlike, usually glass-covered structure and the bed of earth it covers, heated typically by fermenting manure or electrical cables, for growing plants out of season. 2. a place or environment favoring rapid growth or spread, esp. of something disliked or unwanted: a hotbed of disease. 3. Slang.a bed shared by two or more persons in shifts, each sleeping in it for or at a designated time and then vacating it for the next occupant. —v.i. Slang.to share a bed in shifts, so that it is always occupied. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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