(uncountable) A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.

plural of hot potato

(networks) A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available neighbour immediately as opposed to being buffered until the optimum path to the destination is usable.

(simile, transitive, informal) To get rid of or stop doing as quickly as possible.

simple past tense and past participle of drop like a hot potato

present participle of drop like a hot potato

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drop like a hot potato