喜樂美語
  1. 1高手；紅人（有時帶諷刺，覺得對方太愛現）

    A hotshot is someone who is very good at what they do and lets that confidence show — a star at work, in sport, or in school. It is informal. Said with a smile, it can be praise: the hotshot lawyer who wins the case. Said with a little twist, it can sting: it hints the person is showing off, or that other people are tired of hearing how great they are. It is used as a noun (he's a hotshot) and sometimes in front of another noun (a hotshot pilot). The shot here is an old way of talking about a person who is skilled, as in a good shot, not a gunshot in this sense. Though actually, calling someone a hotshot often says as much about the speaker's feelings as about the person's skill.

組成From hot + shot. Shot here is a person who is skilled (as in a good shot); hot marks them as impressive.

同家族的字

  • hothere it means impressive, not temperature
  • shotan old way of saying a person who is good at something, like a good shot

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

hotshotadj/ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/

  • 1

    informalHighly skilled.

    • He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record.
  • 2

    informalDisplaying talent.

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

hotshotnoun/ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/

  • 1

    informalSomeone 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

    A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.

  • 4

    rail-transportrailwaystransportA 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

    slangA 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!”

hotshotverb/ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/

  • 1

    slangTo give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.

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