Three hots and a cot (1969)

[Sam Clements]

For what it's worth, NO ancestry.com hits from 1959-69 on three/hots/cots.

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>    The CASSELL DICTIONARY OF SLANG has "1970s" for "three hots and a cot,"
meaning "three meals a day plus a bed for the night (cf. THREE SQUARES)."
>    Not to be confused with three hot men/women and a cot.  That just
wouldn't work on a cot.
>
>
> DELINQUENT BOYS LEARN AT CAMPS
>        By JOAN LEE FAUST Special to The New York Times.       New York
Times  (1857-Current file).       New York, N.Y.: Sep 28, 1969.
p. 51 (1 page):
>    For a day's work, each youth is paid 50 cents plus earning his room and
board, or "three hots and a cot," as one youth described it.
>