hotshot

See also: hot shot

English

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Etymology

From hot +‎ shot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Adjective

hotshot (comparative more hotshot, superlative most hotshot)

  1. (informal) Highly skilled.
    He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record.
  2. (informal) Displaying talent.
    Keep up those hotshot baskets, and the scouts are sure to take notice.

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Noun

hotshot (plural hotshots)

  1. (informal) Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
    She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!
    • 2021 March 20, Maureen Dowd, “Old Pol, New Tricks”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”
  2. A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
  3. (US) A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.
  4. (US, rail transport) A fast freight train.
    • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:
      Indeed, development proceeded so rapidly thereafter that Mopac, for instance, was rebuilding a series of 10-year-old Woodard 2-8-4's into 4-8-4's by 1940 - not because they couldn't steam but because their 63-inch drivers couldn't roll the hotshots fast enough.
  5. (slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
    • 1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison, page 120:
      I sniffed glue, transmission fluid, gasoline, whatever drug anybody gave me, I took. […] [Y]ears ago, I was in a drug rehabilitation program and found out that my brother was killed after somebody gave him a hotshot, drugs laced with poison.

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Verb

hotshot (third-person singular simple present hotshots, present participle hotshotting, simple past and past participle hotshotted)

  1. (transitive, slang) To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.

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