hotshot

adj

1. (informal)Highly skilled.

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

2. (informal)Displaying talent.

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

noun

1. (informal)Someone 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. (US)A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.
4. (US)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.”

5. (slang)A 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. (slang, transitive)To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.