Hot Potato
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Hot Potato can refer to:
- Hot Potato (game) is a children's game that involves players quickly tossing a small object such as a beanbag to each other while music plays. The child who has (or last touched) the "hot potato" when the music stops is out. Play continues until one child is left, who wins.
- From the game, "hot potato" has become an expression that denotes something unwanted, of which nobody wishes to claim the responsibility of, and passes it on to others as quickly as possible (as if to avoid getting burned).
- Hot Potato also refers to a game show aired on NBC in 1984. For more information on this show, click here.
- "Hot Potato" is a song by La Toya Jackson.
- "Hot Potatoe" is also a children's song by The Wiggles.
- Hot potato routing is a computer networking term.