0 someone who does things or reacts to things quickly and without thinking carefully first
1 someone who gets angry too quickly and reacts without thinking carefully first
However, these rhetorical oppositions between young men and elders, violent hotheads and measured experience, educated and illiterate, conservatives and radicals, violence and statecraft, are blurred in practice.
Those workers are not a set of industrial hotheads who down tools at the drop of a hat three or four times a year.
The real danger which we have to face is not that of a few hotheads.
Here and there, of course, there were hotheads, but in the main order prevailed.
We ought to remind any hotheads in our local communities of that fact.
Obviously, one or two hotheads have a vested interest in the demise of the steel industry for their own political purposes.
That is most unlikely, and probably only possible if some hothead makes a mistake.
This is not a speech by a politician or by some hothead who makes his point with a sweep of the hand.
