Other forms: hotshots
A hotshot is somebody dazzlingly good and rather pleased about it. A hotshot lawyer, some hotshot from London, a young hotshot.
The admiration is grudging: calling somebody a hotshot concedes the skill and resents the manner. It is American and informal, and it works as an adjective too. In American firefighting a hotshot crew is an elite wildfire team.
1nounhotshotSomebody dazzlingly good and rather pleased about it.
“The firm hired a young hotshot from London who thinks he knows everything.”
hotshot is a person.
From hot + shot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA