Welcome to another wild and wonderful installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! With the election only about a month away now, it's time for another piece of political terminology. Let's get our vocabulary set for the debates with the Word of the Week:
Hot button: (noun) a strongly emotive, popular or controversial concern or issue. -- "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang", Grant Barrett, Ed., Oxford University Press, 2004.
Example: In this highly-contested race, both candidates are looking for the hot buttons that will swing as many voters as possible over to their side and cinch the election for them.
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