hotshot

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hotshot

/ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/

adjective more hotshot · most hotshot · hot shot · hot-shot

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

noun hotshots · hot shot · hot-shot

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 A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.
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.
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.
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!”
Similar: hot dose

verb hotshots · hotshotting · hotshotted · hot shot · hot-shot

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

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adj highly skilled

Русский	иску́сный iskúsnyj, уме́лый umélyj, дарови́тый darovítyj

adj displaying talent

Русский	тала́нтливый talántlivyj, дарови́тый darovítyj, одарённый odarjónnyj

noun someone with exceptional skills in a certain field

Français	as, champion, bête, machine
Русский	уме́лец umélec, уме́лица umélica, знато́к znatók, до́ка dóka, спец spec

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@misc{hotshot_2026,
  title = {hotshot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hotshot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}