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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj. or attrib.

designating discussions of sports, especially and originally hockey, usually taking place between periods of play.

Quotations

1959

The auto industry has its own hot-stove league--the off-season gatherings of stylists, planners and engineers who talk of what might have been or what might yet be.

1962

. . . things we have missed may be mulled over in Hot Stove sessions which are as old and as popular as the sport of hockey itself.

1965

King Clancy . . . joined Bower . . . on the Hot Stove panel yesterday. . . .