hotshots

Noun

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!
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) A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.
4. (US) A 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.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.
5. (slang) A 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.1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison, page 120
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!”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...

   Synonyms:

   hot dose

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