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Meaning Freshly printed. Origin This term is applied especially to newspapers.<br>Newsprint presses generate heat when printing, by a process called, for  [https://dinkes.kaurkab.go.id/?imun=sensa69 bokep] obvious reasons, 'hot metal printing'. Although the term only really makes complete sense for things like newspapers which are pressed and hot, it is by [https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/extension extension] now also used to refer to anything that is fresh and newly made.<br>Hot off (or from) the press (or presses) didn't originate as a phrase until the middle of the 20th century. For example, The Times August 1955: "But it is for novelties, hot from the press or the copyist's desk, that discontent is calling." The hotness is a clear allusion to the hot metal process, but may also allude to an earlier usage of hot news , i.e.<br><br>to mean striking or sensational news. This is used in a Daily Express story in September 1914: 'Hot news' ... must be provided for the people, and thus we learn from the Vienna 'Abendblatt' that General French is a prisoner.