hotlist <World-Wide Web> (From {hypertext} "{hot spot}") A {document} on the {World-Wide Web} or a user's {browser} configuration file containing {hypertext} {links}, often unorganised and undocumented, to notable pages on the Web. Compare the 19th century notion of a commonplace book (http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster?commonplace+book). (1995-04-16)