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View synonyms for hotshot
hotshot
[ hot-shot ]
adjective
- highly successful and aggressive:
a hotshot lawyer; a hotshot account exec.
- displaying skill flamboyantly:
a hotshot ballplayer.
- moving, going, or operating without a stop; fast:
a hotshot express.
noun
- an impressively successful or skillful and often vain person.
- Railroads. an express freight train.
- a firefighter.
hotshot
/ ˈhɒtˌʃɒt /
noun
- informal.an important person or expert, esp when showy
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Amir moves from a swaggering hotshot who seems to know it all to a broken man now questioning everything.
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The action focuses on the decision-making process of a movie studio hotshot.
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But, the hotshot billionaire may have some secrets of his own.
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When Djokovic burst onto the scene after winning the Aussie Open in 2008, he was a brash hotshot challenging Federer and Nadal.
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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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