hotshot
noun[C]
mainlyUSinformaluk/ˈhɒt.ʃɒt/us/ˈhɑːt.ʃɑːt/someone who isskilfulandsuccessfulat something:
高手,能人Now he's alecturer, hethinkshe's arealhotshot!现在他当了讲师,就认为自己是能人了。
She'squitea hotshotatchess.她是个国际象棋高手。
Synonyms
ace(SKILLED PERSON)informal
sensation
virtuoso
whizz(EXPERT)UKinformal approving
wizardinformal
Experts and specialists
- academician
- artist
- authority
- boffin
- child prodigy
- doyen
- doyenne
- historiographer
- knowsomethinginside outidiom
- lapidary
- literati
- maven
- pyrotechnician
- Renaissance man
- savant
- semiotician
- skilled
- whizz
- wonder
- wunderkind