A commonly-used (but etymologically obscure) term for a sausage that is usually eaten in a bun
with ketchup, mustard, and/or relish.
"Sandwich sausage" would be more accurate, but ther term "hot dog" has stuck.
The
Dachshund is notorious for looking like a hot dog (the most likely reason that hot dogs got their name was their likeness to the
dachshund).
"While in
Frankfurt (appropriately), I once asked a German
storekeeper for a 'heißer Hund'- literally 'a hot dog.' He burst out laughing, as 'heißer Hund' in German suggests a dog in heat." -Richard
Lederer
You see, "hot dog" literally means a dog that is hot, and taken figuratively can mean a frothingly horny canine.
