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Check her out. Is she hot, or is she hot?
— Forrest · Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker urges a companion to look at a woman and asks a rhetorical question that answers itself. Repeating the word hot works as emphatic, enthusiastic appraisal of her looks, presented as an obvious fact the listener should agree with at once.
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