hot-shit adj.
1. splendid, great; often in ironic use.
![]() | AS XXXVIII:3 174: To describe something in the most superlative tones and language is to call it [...] hot shit. | |
![]() | Coming of Age Mississippi 220: All teachers start off pretending they are hot shit. | |
![]() | Family Arsenal 47: Now there’s a word that’s really hot shit. Where’d you pick that up? | |
![]() | (con. 1969) Dispatches 219: I could let you go on thinking that [...] we were like some incomparable commando team, some hot-shit squadron. | |
![]() | Fort Apache, The Bronx 58: You’re really proud of yourself, ain’t you? [...] You really think you’re hot shit now. | |
![]() | Rivethead (1992) 12: You think you’re hot shit, don’t you, son? | |
![]() | (con. 1960s) Blood Brothers 47: She was hot shit man, I would have bought some of this bitch’s pussy if I hadn’t been working. | |
![]() | Florida Roadkill 249: You think you’re hot shit. | |
![]() | Plainclothes Naked (2002) 250: Manny Ubert had a rep as some hot-shit interrogator. | |
![]() | (con. WWII) Father of the Man Prologue: ‘Smartass,’ said Lopez. ‘Thinks he’s hot shit,’ said Stewart. | |
![]() | Cherry 52: We made a big deal out of the drinking, the way you will when you’re young [...] we thought we were hot shit. |
2. in ext. use, offensively self-conceited, arrogant.
![]() | Thief 379: It might have been frothy-mouth. You know, the hot-shit parole officer? | |
![]() | Psychotic Reactions (1988) 115: It’s a very nice record. It’s easier to listen to than lots of these hotshit Rock And Roll albums like the new Black Sabbath. | in|
![]() | Family Arsenal 148: You can tell Brodie she’s got some pretty hot-shit friends. |
In phrases
(US) keen or enthusiastic.
![]() | Memphis-Nam-Sweden 87: They were supposed to be hot shit for the Army. |