PISTOL, HOTTER THAN A

short for hotter than a two-dollar pistol, which means very hot; red-hot. A two-dollar pistol is "hot" because it is so cheaply made that it usually blows up and blows off a hand. The expression is used in the lecture in reference to a question which gave significant or "hot" reactions on the E-Meter. —SHSBC Binder 6 Approved Glossary

(slang) very hot; red-hot. From the phrase hotter than a two-dollar pistol. A two-dollar pistol is "hot" because it is so cheaply made that it usually blows up and blows off a hand. In this lecture, hot is used to mean "performing extremely well." As a matter of fact, something could happen at eleven o'clock in the morning in an organization, and usually by three or four they could have a Secretarial Executive Director out on it if things were really running hotter than a pistol, you see?