hotshot

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

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.

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