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hotshot
noun- an adulterated dose of a drug that is designed to be fatal when injected US, 1936
- — American Speech, p. 27, February 1952: “Teen-age hophead jargon”
- New York detectives assigned to the Narcotics Squad are convinced that he died of what the trade calls “a hot shot”–heroin or cocaine purposely mixed with rat poison. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 47, 1956
- “I can tell you in confidence he is due for a hot shot.” (Note: This is a cap of poison junk sold to addicts for liquidation purposes. Often given to informers. Usually the hot shot is strychnine since it tastes and looks like junk.) — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 2, 1957
- If some hypo finds out that another hypo is a stool pigeon they give him what is called a hot shot. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 151, 1958
- “We thought at first it was an overdose, but all you had to do was look in the kid’s face to see it was a hot shot.” “A hot shot?” Donald Halsted said. “An injection of poison.” — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 29, 1960
- That creepin’ bastard Fink! He gets so much for what they call “makin’ a case” ... someone’s goin to slip him a hotshot... — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 243, 1960
- Addicts call this type of hotshot a “ten-cent pistol” because the poison costs a dime but is as effective as a gun. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 39, 1966
- He wasn’t the type, but he kept trying until he ran the “Gorilla” game on a dope dealer’s broad and was set up for a “hot shot.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 41, 1969
- The coroner says she O.D.’d on smack. She wasn’t murdered–unless somebody gave her a hotshot on purpose. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 94, 1981
- a gun shot fired after an emergency call to police US
- — Los Angeles Times, p. B8, 19 December 1994
- an electric cattle prod US, 2003
- — John Cann, The Stunt Guide, p. 60: “Terms and definitions”
- execution by electrocution in the electric chair US
- — American Speech, p. 155, May 1951: “Hermann Collitz and the language of the underworld”
- a flashy, successful person whose self-esteem is perhaps excessive US, 1927
- If you’re such a hotshot patriot, why didn’t you reenlist? — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 115, 1957
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