Usually means: Expert showing off impressive skills.
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  1. hotshot: Merriam-Webster
  2. hotshot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hotshot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hotshot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hotshot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hotshot, hotshot: Wordnik
  7. hotshot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hotshot: Wiktionary
  9. hotshot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hotshot: Dictionary.com
  11. hotshot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. HotShot (video game), Hotshot (band), Hotshot (basketball), Hotshot (disambiguation), Hotshot (film), Hotshot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hotshot: Rhymezone
  14. hotshot: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Hotshot: The Word Detective
  16. hotshot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. hotshot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. hotshot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hotshot: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hotshot: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal) Highly skilled.
adjective:  (informal) Displaying talent.
noun:  (informal) Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
noun:  A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
noun:  (US) A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.
noun:  (US, rail transport) A fast freight train.
noun:  (slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.

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