different between hotshot vs hotspot

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

hotshot (comparative more hotshot, superlative most hotshot)

1. (informal) Highly skilled.

   He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record.

2. (informal) Displaying talent.

   Keep up those hotshot baskets, the scouts are sure to take notice.

Translations

Noun

hotshot (plural hotshots)

1. (informal) Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.

2. A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
3. (US, rail transport) A fast freight train.
   • 1959, "Steam's Finest Hour", edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co.

4. (slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
   • 1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison (page 120)

     I sniffed glue, transmission fluid, gasoline, whatever drug anybody gave me, I took. […] [Y]ears ago, I was in a drug rehabilitation program and found out that my brother was killed after somebody gave him a hotshot, drugs laced with poison.

Coordinate terms

• (firefighter): smokejumper

Translations

Verb

hotshot (third-person singular simple present hotshots, present participle hotshotting, simple past and past participle hotshotted)

1. (transitive, slang) To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.

See also

• (firefighter): interagency hotshot crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “hotshot” in the Collins English Dictionary

English

Noun

hotspot (plural hotspots)

1. Alternative form of hot spot

References

• “hotspot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• hot pots, hotpots, pot shot, potshot

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hot spot

Noun

hotspot m (definite singular hotspoten, indefinite plural hotspots, definite plural hotspotene)

1. a hot spot / hotspot

References

• “hotspot” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hot spot

Noun

hotspot m

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1. a hot spot / hotspot

Spanish

Noun

hotspot m (plural hotspots)

1. hot spot