Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A person of impressive skill and daring, especially one who is highly successful and self-assured.
- n. A nonstop freight train.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A foolish, inconsiderate fellow.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a successful, self-confident person who is regarded by others as highly skilled; -- sometimes used ironically in reference to aggressive persons whose opinion of their own talents is considered exaggerated.
- adj. highly talented, self-confident and successful.
- adj. flamboyantly displaying one's skills.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Examples
“No, it got bumped off period. .check again hotshot, it's not on the next page or the page after that.”
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“A young hotshot is on his way across country to the west coast to start a big-bucks career.”
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“How many times has that been rehashed with cheesy effects (War of the Worlds 2005 version, Day After Tomorrow, etc) But minus the father and son team up I am sold on the sophisticated plot, maybe they can bring in some hotshot from the CIA or the NSA too?”
“• High school hotshot from the mountains of West Virginia.”
“August 28th, 2009 Hitmaker THE-DREAM can now add record label hotshot to his resume - he has been appointed vice president of Island Def Jam Music Group.”
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“The first tech transfer office she dealt with was at a "hotshot" university that demanded huge upfront payments.”
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“One young undergraduate who wants to go to medical school says she will be the "hotshot" surgeon and her future husband will be "At home playing with the kiddies.”
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“Summer is but a long gone memory here, and with it goes playing what Americans call "hotshot" I prefer dumb smoke sucking dirt scraper with the tools of trade: chainsaw, axe and rakehoe.”
“And the Post brings readers a detailed account of a "hotshot" investment banker's sexual proclivities, as alleged in a suit by his estranged wife.”
“Young artists, actors (especially actors), models, musicians (especially musicians), "hotshot" traders, New School students (especially New School students) ....”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hotshot’.
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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hipshots
overshoots, long shot, earshot, shoot from the hip, bloodshot, mugshot, snapshot, eyeshot, jumpshot, hotshot, shotgun, slapshot and 22 more...
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And the last first
Words with the first three or more letters repeated at the end, unless all letters are repeated (for those, see Isograms of lengths six, eight and ten). Overlaps are okay (alfalfa, entente), but wo...
nonphenomenon, underground, bicubic, ionization, microcosmic, nicotinic, interpoint, hotshot, atectate, ingesting, anemovane, physiography and 130 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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Moose Jaw words
So, I'm writing a story set in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. These are words I either use a lot, or new words I am proud of having worked into my story.
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