hotshot

See also: hot shot

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

hotshot (comparative more hotshot, superlative most hotshot)

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

Translations

highly skilled

Finnish: -niekka

Russian: иску́сный (ru) (iskúsnyj), уме́лый (ru) (umélyj), дарови́тый (ru) (darovítyj)

displaying talent

Russian: тала́нтливый (ru) (talántlivyj), дарови́тый (ru) (darovítyj), одарённый (ru) (odarjónnyj)

Noun

hotshot (plural hotshots)

(informal) Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!
A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
(US, rail transport) A fast freight train.
- 1959, "Steam's Finest Hour", edited by David P. Morgan, 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.
(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.

Coordinate terms

(firefighter): smokejumper

Translations

Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field

Finnish: taituri (fi), -niekka, ässä (fi)
French: as (fr) m, champion (fr) m, bête (fr) f, machine (fr) f

Russian: уме́лец (ru) m (umélec), уме́лица (ru) f (umélica), знато́к (ru) m (znatók), до́ка (ru) m (dóka), спец (ru) m (spec)

Verb

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

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