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hotshot

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hot⋅shot

[hot-shot] Slang.
–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
4. an impressively successful or skillful and often vain person.
5. Railroads. an express freight train.
6. a firefighter.
Also, hot shot (for defs. 4, 6).


Origin:
1595–1605; hot + shot 1
hot·shot   (hŏt'shŏt')   
n.  
  1. Slang A person of impressive skill and daring, especially one who is highly successful and self-assured.
  2. A nonstop freight train.
hot'shot' adj.
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