ALL meanings of hotshot
hot·shot
H h - adjective hotshot highly successful and aggressive: a hotshot lawyer; a hotshot account exec. 1
- adjective hotshot displaying skill flamboyantly: a hotshot ballplayer. 1
- adjective hotshot moving, going, or operating without a stop; fast: a hotshot express. 1
- noun hotshot an impressively successful or skillful and often vain person. 1
- noun hotshot Railroads. an express freight train. 1
- noun hotshot a firefighter. 1
- noun hotshot An important or exceptionally able person. 1
- noun hotshot successful person 1
- noun hotshot high-flying, successful 1
- countable noun hotshot If you refer to someone as a hotshot, you mean they are very good at a particular job and are going to be very successful. 0
- noun hotshot an important person or expert, esp when showy 0
- noun hotshot a person regarded by others or personally as an expert in some activity or as very important, aggressive, or skillful 0
- noun hotshot a fast freight train 0
- noun hotshot Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field. 0
- noun hotshot a type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in, and manhandled about. 0
- adjective hotshot Highly skilled. 0
- adjective hotshot Displaying talent. 0