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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]

Merriam Webster's

noun Usage: often attributive Date: circa 1925 1. a fast freight 2. a person who is conspicuously talented or successful <a hotshot lawyer>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. esp. US colloq. --n. an important or exceptionally able person. --adj. (attrib.) important, able, expert, suddenly prominent.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hotshots) If you refer to someone as a hotshot, you mean they are very good at a particular job and are going to be very successful. ...a bunch of corporate hotshots... N-COUNT: oft N n