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View synonyms for hotshot

hotshot

[ hot-shot ]

adjective

  1. highly successful and aggressive:

    a hotshot lawyer; a hotshot account exec.

  2. displaying skill flamboyantly:

    a hotshot ballplayer.

  3. moving, going, or operating without a stop; fast:

    a hotshot express.



noun

  1. an impressively successful or skillful and often vain person.
  2. Railroads. an express freight train.
  3. a firefighter.

hotshot

/ ˈhɒtˌʃɒt /

noun

  1. informal.
    an important person or expert, esp when showy


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hotshot1

First recorded in 1595–1605; hot + shot 1

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Example Sentences

Amir moves from a swaggering hotshot who seems to know it all to a broken man now questioning everything.

The action focuses on the decision-making process of a movie studio hotshot.

But, the hotshot billionaire may have some secrets of his own.

When Djokovic burst onto the scene after winning the Aussie Open in 2008, he was a brash hotshot challenging Federer and Nadal.

Whip is a hotshot, sauced-up captain whose substance-abuse habit crash-lands him, quite literally, into a whole heap of trouble.

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