Definitions for hotshot

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IPA: /ˈhɒtˌʃɒt/

Hotshot is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in hotshot (hhoostt).

Definitions for hotshot

noun

1. an impressively successful or skillful and often vain person.
2. Railroads. an express freight train.
3. a firefighter.

adjective

1. highly successful and aggressive:
2. displaying skill flamboyantly:
3. moving, going, or operating without a stop; fast:

Origin of hotshot

First recorded in 1595-1605; hot + shot¹

Examples for hotshot

But, the hotshot billionaire may have some secrets of his own.

Whip is a hotshot, sauced-up captain whose substance-abuse habit crash-lands him, quite literally, into a whole heap of trouble.

Only Diana was canny enough to hire a hotshot divorce lawyer and extract an unprecedented £17 million settlement.