Hot Potato

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Hot Potato can refer to:

  • Hot Potato (game), 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 only one child is left.
    • From the game, "hot potato" has come to mean something unwanted, which nobody wants responsibility for, and passes on to others as quickly as possible (as if to avoid getting burned).
  • Hot Potato (game show), a TV show aired on NBC in 1984.
  • "Hot Potato (single)", a song by La Toya Jackson.
  • "Hot Potato" is also a children's song by The Wiggles.
  • Hot potato routing is a computer networking term.
  • The Hot Potato: Dancefloor Move