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名詞

hot shot (plural hot shots)

1. Alternative spelling of hotshot.
2. (historical, military, nautical) Round shot that has been heated to a glow before firing in order to set wooden enemy ships afire.

   Synonym: heated shot

   After being struck by three hot shots from the coastal fort, the attacking ship of the line burned uncontrollably until the flames reached her powder magazine and she blew up.

3. A lethal injection of heroin or another opiate.
   • 2006 July 6, Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney, “Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare” (0:21 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia‎, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Dennis Reynolds (Glenn Howerton):

     “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!”

別の表記

• hot shot, hot-shot

語源

From hot +‎ shot.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/

形容詞

hotshot (comparative more hotshot, superlative most hotshot)

1. (informal) Highly skilled.

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

2. (informal) Displaying talent.

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

名詞

hotshot (plural hotshots)

1. (informal) Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.

   She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!

   • 2021 March 20, Maureen Dowd, “Old Pol, New Tricks”, in The New York Times‎:

     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, rail transport) A fast freight train.
   • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:

     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.

4. (slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
   • 1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison, page 120:

     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.

等位語

• (firefighter): smokejumper

動詞

hotshot (third-person singular simple present hotshots, present participle hotshotting, simple past and past participle hotshotted)

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

参考

• (firefighter): Interagency hotshot crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “hotshot”, in Collins English Dictionary.