hotshotn.

Brit.

/ˈhɒtʃɒt/, U.S.

/ˈhɑtˌʃɑt/

Forms: see hot adj. and n.¹ and shot n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hot adj., shot n.¹

Etymology: < hot adj. + shot n.¹

†1. A person who is eager to shoot (with a firearm); a reckless or hot-headed person. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > by type of shooting

hotshot1593

tirailleur1796

sharpshooter1802

sniper1824

pot-shooter1849

fusillader1878

pot-shotter1904

1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. C 3^v O maister doubt you not but your Nouice will prooue a whot shot, with a bottle of Metheglin.

1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. E3 To the warres I betooke me, ranckt my selfe amongst desperate Hot-shots.

c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 380 A company of hott shotts are abroad.

1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 83 Straight to the wharfe repayres the hot-shot.

†2. A ball of clay and coal, used as fuel. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > coal-derived fuel

coal ball1603

pipe-coal1612

hotshot1673

hotshoot1704

fireball1735

brickette1806

briquette1884

coal slurry1912

slurry1913

semi-coke1918

Phurnacite1937

syncrude1971

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 58 They use also for Fewel a sort of round Balls made of Clay mixed with a certain proportion of coal..which they call Hotshots.

3. Gunnery. As a mass noun. Projectiles which are heated to a very high temperature, with the intention of igniting the target upon impact. Now historical.figurative in quot. 1681.

ΚΠ

1681 A. Behn 2nd Pt. Rover i. ii. 13 I perceive all your hot shot is not yet spent in Battel, you have a Volley in reserve for me still.

1782 Brit. Mag. & Rev. Nov. 388/1 All the battering ships were set on fire by our hot shot except one.

1855 in Russian War, 1855: Black Sea Corr. (Navy Rec. Soc.) (1945) 187 The batteries..are amply provided with hot-shot furnaces.

1921 A. Johnson Jefferson & his Colleagues iii. 46 Then the starboard guns of the Philadelphia, as though instinct with purpose, began to send hot shot into the town.

1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons & Mil. Terms 227/3 There are records of hot shot being used in Cherbourg in 1418, and it continued in use until the mid-nineteenth century.

2003 C. P. Borick Gallant Def. iv. 66 Fear that the Fenwick batteries would fire ‘hot shot’—cannonballs heated in fires to such a temperature that they ignited any flammable materials on which they landed—into their midst.

4. U.S. slang. A fast train.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > fast train

fast train1837

cannonball1880

hotshot1922

1922 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 18 Dec. 14/6 To show just what a ‘hot-shot’ this train was..it had nine cars of meat five of eggs one of butter and one of dried fruit.

1953 S. Bellow Adventures of Augie March ix. 167 There was a hotshot or nonstop express to Toledo.

1990 Railroad Model Craftsman July 39 (advt.) Switching, way freight, coal drags but mostly doubleheaded hot shots screaming down the main line with the perishables.

a. Sport colloquial (originally U.S.). An exceptionally skilled player, esp. in a sport which requires shooting (at goal, at a target, etc.); an accomplished or successful scorer.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players

server1585

free agent1649

benchwarmer1662

puncher1681

sticker1779

hard hitter1790

hitter1813

go-devil1835

beneficiaire1841

colt1846

heavyweight1857

stayer1862

left-hander1864

attack1869

cap1879

international1882

roadman1886

big leaguer1887

homester1887

sand lotter1887

badger1890

internationalist1892

repeater1893

anchorman1895

grandstander1896

stylist1897

homebrew1903

letterman1905

toss-loser1906

fouler1908

rookie1908

mudder1912

sharpshooter1912

pro-amateur1919

receiver1919

southpaw1925

freestyler1927

hotshot1927

active1931

all-timer1936

iceman1936

wild card1940

scrambler1954

rounder1955

franchise1957

call-up1960

trialist1960

non-import1964

sandbagger1965

rebel1982

wide-body1986

1927 Mansfield (Ohio) News 6 Feb. 12/3 Fulton and Gimbel were hot shots for Lucas, getting 16 and 14 points respectively.

1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c13/4 Center Jim Chones and rookie hotshot Campy Russell should make their presences known in early December.

1987 Guardian Weekly 22 Mar. 20/1 Fast Eddie, the pool-room hotshot..in..The Hustler.

2005 New Nation 26 Sept. 46/5 Chelsea midfield general Claude Makelele was named in the prestigious World XI line-up, alongside Barca hotshot Samuel Eto'o.

b. colloquial (originally U.S.). An important or exceptionally capable person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important

persona1425

personagec1460

colossus1605

satrapon1650

bigwig1772

big man1789

butt-cut1806

tallboy1820

buzz-wig1854

great or high shot1861

celestial1874

pot1880

big stuff1883

importance1886

big wheel1893

mandarin1907

the (also a) big noise1909

hotty1910

big boy1918

biggie1926

hotshot1933

wheel1933

eminence1935

top hat1936

big or great white chief1937

Mr Big1940

big kahuna1966

1933 Amer. Speech Oct. 35/2 Hot shot, a champion, a leading contender, an excellent fighter.

1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye iii. 23 He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hot-shot and all.

1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 103 These hot-shot scientists. They love the limelight.

1990 Fast Forward 17 Jan. 14/2 The truth is that hot shots never need to boast, they know they're good.

6. U.S. slang. A dose of poison or an overdose of a narcotic deliberately given to kill a drug addict.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a dose of > powerful

hotshot1936

twister1936

1936 Amer. Speech 11 122/2 The hot shot kills the addict, in contrast to flipping him or taking him.

1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie Gloss. 13 Hot Shot... Poison, usually strychnine, passed to an addict as junk. The peddler sometimes slips a hot shot to an addict because the addict is giving information to the law.

1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 106 Hot shot,..1. Injection of poison that user believes to be good drugs, a method of getting rid of police informers. 2. Injection of a drug that is of higher potency than the addict is accustomed to.

1990 Boxing Illustr. Oct. 80/4 If Sonny was given a ‘hot shot’ meant to kill him, why..were ‘only small byproducts of heroin found in his system’?

7. Physics. attributive. Designating a wind tunnel in which an arc discharge in a pressurized chamber is used to produce a hypersonic pulse of gas in an evacuated test chamber, the two chambers being separated initially by a diaphragm that is ruptured by the discharge.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > aerodynamics > wind tunnels

air tunnel1805

tunnel1911

wind tunnel1911

wind-channel1918

smoke tunnel1931

spinning tunnel1934

hotshot1957

1957 Science 17 May 984/2 Development of the ‘hot-shot’ wind tunnel, which stimulates not only high speed but also the temperatures of supersonic flight.

1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 14/2 The heated gas in the arc chamber is the working gas of a hotshot tunnel with a working section of 2·5 meters and a Mach number of about 20.

1999 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 357 2236 The hot-shot driver technique..is explained; this is followed by a description of the wind tunnel.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hotshot
释义	hotshotn. Brit. /ˈhɒtʃɒt/, U.S. /ˈhɑtˌʃɑt/ Forms: see hot adj. and n.¹ and shot n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hot adj., shot n.¹ Etymology: < hot adj. + shot n.¹ †1. A person who is eager to shoot (with a firearm); a reckless or hot-headed person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > by type of shooting hotshot1593 tirailleur1796 sharpshooter1802 sniper1824 pot-shooter1849 fusillader1878 pot-shotter1904 1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. C 3^v O maister doubt you not but your Nouice will prooue a whot shot, with a bottle of Metheglin. 1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. E3 To the warres I betooke me, ranckt my selfe amongst desperate Hot-shots. c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 380 A company of hott shotts are abroad. 1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 83 Straight to the wharfe repayres the hot-shot. †2. A ball of clay and coal, used as fuel. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > coal-derived fuel coal ball1603 pipe-coal1612 hotshot1673 hotshoot1704 fireball1735 brickette1806 briquette1884 coal slurry1912 slurry1913 semi-coke1918 Phurnacite1937 syncrude1971 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 58 They use also for Fewel a sort of round Balls made of Clay mixed with a certain proportion of coal..which they call Hotshots. 3. Gunnery. As a mass noun. Projectiles which are heated to a very high temperature, with the intention of igniting the target upon impact. Now historical.figurative in quot. 1681. ΚΠ 1681 A. Behn 2nd Pt. Rover i. ii. 13 I perceive all your hot shot is not yet spent in Battel, you have a Volley in reserve for me still. 1782 Brit. Mag. & Rev. Nov. 388/1 All the battering ships were set on fire by our hot shot except one. 1855 in Russian War, 1855: Black Sea Corr. (Navy Rec. Soc.) (1945) 187 The batteries..are amply provided with hot-shot furnaces. 1921 A. Johnson Jefferson & his Colleagues iii. 46 Then the starboard guns of the Philadelphia, as though instinct with purpose, began to send hot shot into the town. 1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons & Mil. Terms 227/3 There are records of hot shot being used in Cherbourg in 1418, and it continued in use until the mid-nineteenth century. 2003 C. P. Borick Gallant Def. iv. 66 Fear that the Fenwick batteries would fire ‘hot shot’—cannonballs heated in fires to such a temperature that they ignited any flammable materials on which they landed—into their midst. 4. U.S. slang. A fast train. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > fast train fast train1837 cannonball1880 hotshot1922 1922 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 18 Dec. 14/6 To show just what a ‘hot-shot’ this train was..it had nine cars of meat five of eggs one of butter and one of dried fruit. 1953 S. Bellow Adventures of Augie March ix. 167 There was a hotshot or nonstop express to Toledo. 1990 Railroad Model Craftsman July 39 (advt.) Switching, way freight, coal drags but mostly doubleheaded hot shots screaming down the main line with the perishables. 5. a. Sport colloquial (originally U.S.). An exceptionally skilled player, esp. in a sport which requires shooting (at goal, at a target, etc.); an accomplished or successful scorer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players server1585 free agent1649 benchwarmer1662 puncher1681 sticker1779 hard hitter1790 hitter1813 go-devil1835 beneficiaire1841 colt1846 heavyweight1857 stayer1862 left-hander1864 attack1869 cap1879 international1882 roadman1886 big leaguer1887 homester1887 sand lotter1887 badger1890 internationalist1892 repeater1893 anchorman1895 grandstander1896 stylist1897 homebrew1903 letterman1905 toss-loser1906 fouler1908 rookie1908 mudder1912 sharpshooter1912 pro-amateur1919 receiver1919 southpaw1925 freestyler1927 hotshot1927 active1931 all-timer1936 iceman1936 wild card1940 scrambler1954 rounder1955 franchise1957 call-up1960 trialist1960 non-import1964 sandbagger1965 rebel1982 wide-body1986 1927 Mansfield (Ohio) News 6 Feb. 12/3 Fulton and Gimbel were hot shots for Lucas, getting 16 and 14 points respectively. 1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c13/4 Center Jim Chones and rookie hotshot Campy Russell should make their presences known in early December. 1987 Guardian Weekly 22 Mar. 20/1 Fast Eddie, the pool-room hotshot..in..The Hustler. 2005 New Nation 26 Sept. 46/5 Chelsea midfield general Claude Makelele was named in the prestigious World XI line-up, alongside Barca hotshot Samuel Eto'o. b. colloquial (originally U.S.). An important or exceptionally capable person. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important persona1425 personagec1460 colossus1605 satrapon1650 bigwig1772 big man1789 butt-cut1806 tallboy1820 buzz-wig1854 great or high shot1861 celestial1874 pot1880 big stuff1883 importance1886 big wheel1893 mandarin1907 the (also a) big noise1909 hotty1910 big boy1918 biggie1926 hotshot1933 wheel1933 eminence1935 top hat1936 big or great white chief1937 Mr Big1940 big kahuna1966 1933 Amer. Speech Oct. 35/2 Hot shot, a champion, a leading contender, an excellent fighter. 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye iii. 23 He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hot-shot and all. 1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 103 These hot-shot scientists. They love the limelight. 1990 Fast Forward 17 Jan. 14/2 The truth is that hot shots never need to boast, they know they're good. 6. U.S. slang. A dose of poison or an overdose of a narcotic deliberately given to kill a drug addict. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a dose of > powerful hotshot1936 twister1936 1936 Amer. Speech 11 122/2 The hot shot kills the addict, in contrast to flipping him or taking him. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie Gloss. 13 Hot Shot... Poison, usually strychnine, passed to an addict as junk. The peddler sometimes slips a hot shot to an addict because the addict is giving information to the law. 1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 106 Hot shot,..1. Injection of poison that user believes to be good drugs, a method of getting rid of police informers. 2. Injection of a drug that is of higher potency than the addict is accustomed to. 1990 Boxing Illustr. Oct. 80/4 If Sonny was given a ‘hot shot’ meant to kill him, why..were ‘only small byproducts of heroin found in his system’? 7. Physics. attributive. Designating a wind tunnel in which an arc discharge in a pressurized chamber is used to produce a hypersonic pulse of gas in an evacuated test chamber, the two chambers being separated initially by a diaphragm that is ruptured by the discharge. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > aerodynamics > wind tunnels air tunnel1805 tunnel1911 wind tunnel1911 wind-channel1918 smoke tunnel1931 spinning tunnel1934 hotshot1957 1957 Science 17 May 984/2 Development of the ‘hot-shot’ wind tunnel, which stimulates not only high speed but also the temperatures of supersonic flight. 1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 14/2 The heated gas in the arc chamber is the working gas of a hotshot tunnel with a working section of 2·5 meters and a Mach number of about 20. 1999 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 357 2236 The hot-shot driver technique..is explained; this is followed by a description of the wind tunnel. 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