hotshot Definition
hot·shot (hät′s̸hät′)
noun
- ☆ a person regarded by others or personally as an expert in some activity or as very important, aggressive, or skillful: often used ironically and attributively
- ☆ a fast freight train
hotshot Usage Examples
Converse of object
follow: Intolerable Cruelty follows a hotshot Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who frames a client's wife in order to prevent a marriage settlement.
Adjective modifier
young: Then you get a young hotshot coming in, like Tiger Woods, who really starts to take it to them.
Modifies a noun
- rookie: There's Lightning McQueen, the hotshot rookie racecar.
- lawyer: Annie ( Jada Pinkett Smith ) is a hotshot prosecution lawyer suffering from nerves on the eve of a big case.
- racecar: There's Lightning McQueen, the hotshot rookie racecar.
- reporter: I'm just bitter cos my name was never mentioned, with the prefix " hotshot reporter " or similar in the copy.
- attorney: Her late mother was a judge and her pompous younger sister Cynthia is a hotshot attorney enjoying the fruits of a lucrative career.

