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noun
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, especially 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.
verb (used without object)
4.
Slang. to share a bed in shifts, so that it is always occupied.
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Word Origin & History
hotbed
1626, from hot + bed, originally "bed of earth heated by fermenting manure for forcing growing plants;" generalized sense of "place that fosters rapid growth" is from 1768.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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