A store which sells "alternative attire" for those who seek it. Buying clothing from there makes you neither original nor a poser (unless of course you think yourself original for shopping there). It's a clothing store. Not much else to it really.
I shop at Hot Topic on occasion. I don't make my own clothing so I suppose that makes me a complete conformist and poser.
by LuciNormal March 4, 2004
Get the Hot Topicmug. a store. the end. you can shop there because you like what they sell. you can not shop there because it's too expensive. you could shop there because everyone else shops there, or you can not shop there becasuse everyone else shops there. but any way you look at it, it's still just a store.
by Liz December 28, 2003
Get the Hot Topicmug. It's a store, people. They sell clothes like everyone else. Just as many posers go there as American Eagle or Abercrombie.
I shop at American Eagle. It's not because I don't want to be a "poser"; it's because I like their clothes. And people who shop at Hot Topic like their clothes. Get over it.
by I love Shirley Manson because she is cool. Muahahaha! December 29, 2003
Get the hot topicmug. when you suddenly find yourself surrounded by wannabe emos sporting the lastest clothing labeled with the cartoon charecters from years past. you can usually spot some one who has been "hot topiced" when the person is obviously trying to be unique, but looks just as shitty as the last shmuck who walked into the store.
"whoa man, what happened to mary? i never knew she owned so much black.....or had so many peircings"
"its too late for her now, shes been hot topiced."
"its too late for her now, shes been hot topiced."
by Laura Tibblez February 23, 2010
Get the hot topicedmug. a store found in just about every mall. one that at one time used to be "scary", but then got popular. whatever, i cant say much because i used to shop there (in like, junio high). i just moved on to thrift stores after.
Middle-schooler with an anarchy patch on his backpack, all black converse, and the dickies witht the cell phone pockets: anarchy rocks!
me: you got that patch at hot topic didnt you, paid for it with federal dollars, and put it on your backpack, which you carry to a government run school. yeah, good job.
me: you got that patch at hot topic didnt you, paid for it with federal dollars, and put it on your backpack, which you carry to a government run school. yeah, good job.
by Random April 6, 2004
Get the Hot Topicmug. Place at the mall to shop. Does it really matter what kind of people go in there? And why do you care what people are writing about it?
by .:SoMeBoDy:. July 11, 2004
Get the hot topicmug.