hot-shot

Meanings

nounhot-shot (plural hot-shots)

alternativeAlternative spelling of hotshot.
He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hot-shot and all, […]
1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 23

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