Definition of "steamy" [steam•y]

• Filled with or emitting steam. (adjective)
• Erotic. (adjective)

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• "And I had some at lunch recently — a bowl so bright and cooling that if I closed my eyes I could imagine that I was no longer in steamy Manhattan but instead lounging on a breezy beach by the sea."
• "To enter Martin's room, they passed through the kitchen, warm and moist and steamy from the big washing in progress."
• "Silk Stalkings was a USA Network crime drama that offered plenty of sultry plotlines in steamy Palm Beach, Florida."