English Dictionary

hotshot

名詞

くだけた表現 アメリカ英語 俗語

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

日本語の意味

抜群の実力を持つ人 / 秀でた技能・才能を持つ有能者 / 際立った才能を持った人物

The young hotshot redesigned the company's flagship product and boosted sales within months.

その若い腕利きは会社の看板製品を再設計し、数か月で売上を伸ばした。

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.

意味（3）

(US, rail transport) 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.

意味（4）

(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.

hotshots （ plural ）