hotshot

Highly skilled.

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

Displaying talent.

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

Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.

She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!

Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”

A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.

A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.

A fast freight train.

Indeed, development proceeded so rapidly thereafter that Mopac, for instance, was rebuilding a series of 10-year-old Woodard 2-8-4's into 4-8-4's by 1940 - not because they couldn't steam but because their 63-inch drivers couldn't roll the hotshots fast enough.

A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.

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.

To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.