hotshot

[ hot-shot ]
See synonyms for: hotshothot shotshotshots on Thesaurus.com

adjective
  1. highly successful and aggressive: a hotshot lawyer; a hotshot account exec.

  2. displaying skill flamboyantly: a hotshot ballplayer.

  1. moving, going, or operating without a stop; fast: a hotshot express.

nounAlso hot shot (for defs. 4, 6).
  1. an impressively successful or skillful and often vain person.

  2. Railroads. an express freight train.

  1. a firefighter.

Origin of hotshot

1
First recorded in 1595–1605; hot + shot1

Words Nearby hotshot

Other definitions for hot shot (2 of 2)

hot shot
[ hot-shot for 1; hot-shot for 2 ]

noun
  1. incandescent shot fired to set enemy ships or buildings on fire.

Origin of hot shot

2
First recorded in 1595–1605

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use hotshot in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for hotshot

hotshot

/ (ˈhɒtˌʃɒt) /


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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012