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hot⋅shot

  [hot-shot] Slang.
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–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
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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hotshot

  1. n.
    an important and energetic person. (Often used sarcastically. Also a term of address.) : If you're such a hotshot, why not straighten out the whole thing?
  2. mod.
    and hot-shot. brilliant; great. : So, you're the hot-shot guy who's going to straighten this place out?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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