hotshot
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Highly skilled.
- Displaying talent.
Noun
- Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
- 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.
- A fast freight train.
- A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
- A lethal injection of heroin or another opiate.
Verb
- To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
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