hotshot
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Is hotshot a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of hotshot?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (informal) Highly skilled.Examples: "He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record."informal
2. (informal) Displaying talent.Examples: "Keep up those hotshot baskets, and the scouts are sure to take notice."informal
noun (English)
1. (informal) Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.Examples: "She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!"; "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.”"informal
2. (US) A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.US
3. (US, rail transport) A fast freight train.Examples: "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."US
4. (slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.Examples: "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."slang
verb (English)
1. (transitive, slang) To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.slangtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary