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hotshot en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keHy- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰeti Proto-Indo-European *kéHidʰeti Proto-Indo-European *kéHidos Proto-Germanic *haitaz Proto-West Germanic *hait Old English hāt Middle English hot English hot English shot English hotshot From hot + shot.

Meanings

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.

Forms

Translations (8)

fi huippu- (highly skilled) · ru дарови́тый (highly skilled) · ru уме́лый (highly skilled) · ru дарови́тый (displaying talent) · ru иску́сный (highly skilled) · ru одарённый (displaying talent) · ru тала́нтливый (displaying talent) · fi taidokas (displaying talent)

hotshot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keHy- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰeti Proto-Indo-European *kéHidʰeti Proto-Indo-European *kéHidos Proto-Germanic *haitaz Proto-West Germanic *hait Old English hāt Middle English hot English hot English shot English hotshot From hot + shot.

Meanings

1. (informal) Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
   • 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.” 2021 March 20, Maureen Dowd, “Old Pol, New Tricks”, in The New York Times:
   • She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!
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) A fast freight train.
   • 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. 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:
5. (slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
   • 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. 1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison, page 120:
6. A lethal injection of heroin or another opiate.
   • “You guys are being babies.” “Babies.” “Oh, we're being babies, Mac? Why don't you go work for your dad all day?” “My dad's a meth dealer.” “[Mock Crying] Oh, oh, no! My daddy's in prison!” “My daddy used to give hot shots to prostitutes. Feel sorry for me!” 2006 July 6, Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney, “Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare” (0:21 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Dennis Reynolds (Glenn Howerton):

Forms

Coordinates

smokejumper

Synonyms

hot dose

Translations (12)

fr champion (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · fi taituri (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · ru знато́к (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · ru спец (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · fi -niekka (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · fi ässä (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · fr bête (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · ru уме́лец (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · fr as (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · fr machine (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · ru уме́лица (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field) · ru до́ка (someone with exceptional skills in a certain field)

hotshot en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keHy- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁eti Proto-Indo-European *-dʰeti Proto-Indo-European *kéHidʰeti Proto-Indo-European *kéHidos Proto-Germanic *haitaz Proto-West Germanic *hait Old English hāt Middle English hot English hot English shot English hotshot From hot + shot.

Meanings

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

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