hotshot
AdjektivSubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- //ˈhɒtˌʃɒt//
Highly skilled.
Adjektiv
- 1
umgangssprachlichHighly skilled.
He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record.
- 2
umgangssprachlichDisplaying talent.
Keep up those hotshot baskets, and the scouts are sure to take notice.
Herkunft
From hot + shot.
Substantiv
- 1
umgangssprachlichSomeone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!
Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”
- 2
A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
- 3
A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.
- 4
A fast freight train.
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 hotshots fast enough.
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SlangA dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
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.
- 6
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. Feel sorry for me!”
Verb
- 1
SlangTo give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
Formen
- Plural
- hotshots
- Komparativ
- more hotshot
- Superlativ
- most hotshot
- Präteritum
- hotshotted
- Partizip II
- hotshotted
- Partizip I
- hotshotting
- 3. Person Singular
- hotshots