2025-12-08
6 分钟Hi, and welcome to the Espresso English podcast,
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Let's get started with today's lesson.
You already know words like hot, broke and sick in English, right?
But did you know those same words have completely different slang meanings?
Hot doesn't just mean the temperature.
Broke isn't about snapping something in half, and sick might actually be a compliment.
In today's video,
we're going to look at ten super common English words with surprising double meanings,
the kind native speakers use in slang or informal conversation all the time.
If you want to understand real English in movies, music, and everyday speech, you'll love this one.
And you can download today's lesson PDF with a bonus quiz by clicking on the link in the video description and entering your email address.
Give it a try to see if you fully understand all these words with their hidden meanings.
All right, let's jump in.
Our first double meaning word is hot.
The regular meaning is a high temperature, the opposite of cold, like Don't touch the pan.
It's very hot.