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whiz kid

noun

, Informal.

a youthful and exceptionally intelligent, successful, or influential person in a given field:
the whiz kid of network programming.

whiz-kid

[ hwiz-kid, wiz- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

First recorded in 1940–45

First recorded in 1940–45

The honchos call in a whiz-kid named George Weiss, who penned tunes for the likes of Elvis.

If you were HP CEO Meg Whitman, how would you feel about the whiz-kid consultants?

On Tuesday, whiz-kid election predictor Nate Silver wrote, “This year, all clichés about Ohio are true.”

Jindal's extraordinary energy in those days helped cement an impression of him as something more than a whiz-kid wonk.

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