Of a person: having the qualities, characteristics, or skills needed to perform the specified role or pursue a specified occupation appropriately…

predicatively. With preposition, as in, as, with, etc., introducing a subject, skill, activity, or place of activity, means of activity, etc. Also…

Specially active in, or good at, something.

Characterized by intensity or energy, in a positive or neutral sense (cf. sense A. 9); exciting… colloquial (originally U.S.). Extremely good…

Allusive, proverbial, transferred, and figurative uses of sense 1. figurative phrase a whale on…, having a great capacity or appetite for…, very good…

colloquial (originally U.S.). Frequently in form smokin'. Originally Jazz. Very lively, energetic, or exciting; performing or performed at a very…

British slang. Violent, combative; spec. (of a person) good at fighting. Also in extended use: skilled at a particular activity. Usually in a bit…