hotshot

Highly skilled.informal

• He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record.

Displaying talent.informal

• Keep up those hotshot baskets, and the scouts are sure to take notice.

Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.informal

• She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!

A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.

A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.US

A fast freight train.US

• Indeed, development proceeded so rapidly thereafter that Mopac, for instance, was rebuilding a series of 10-year-old Woodard 2-8-4's into 4-8-4's by 1940 - not because they couldn't steam but because their 63-inch drivers couldn't roll the

A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.slang

• I sniffed glue, transmission fluid, gasoline, whatever drug anybody gave me, I took. […] [Y]ears ago, I was in a drug rehabilitation program and found out that my brother was killed after somebody gave him a hotshot, drugs laced with poison

A lethal injection of heroin or another opiate.

• “You guys are being babies.” “Babies.” “Oh, we're being babies, Mac? Why don't you go work for your dad all day?” “My dad's a meth dealer.” “[Mock Crying] Oh, oh, no! My daddy's in prison!” “My daddy used to give hot shots to prostitutes. F

To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.slangtransitive