hot shit
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9.9
- noun
- /hɑt ʃɪt/
- Offensive
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engreído
- He walked into the party acting like he was hot shit, but nobody seemed impressed.
- think they're hot shit
And I was like, hot shit, I'm fucking cool.
- And I was like, hot shit, I'm fucking cool.
- She did very good job kind of prepping me to not think that I was hot shit.
- Like you're the biggest hot shit gentleman on the planet and you're chewing food with your mouth open.
Examples
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You think you're hot shit.
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I don't think I'm hot shit.
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I was the hot shit at that time.
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Oh, this dude thinks he's hot shit.
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You think you're such hot shit?
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Yeah, you think you're hot shit?
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You think you're hot shit.
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You think you're such hot shit.
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You think she's some kind of hot shit, don't you?
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His glasses and strut made it clear he thought he was hot shit on a silver platter.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
A very rude and unpleasant person who treats others badly
A person who is rude and treats others badly
Antonyms
How Arrogant
- Offensive
24
6.6
- Offensive
5
9.9
260
4.5
- Informal
99
4.2
11
3.2
81
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The positive, emphatic meaning ('extremely impressive') is not directly derivable from the literal meanings of 'hot' (warm/trending) and 'shit' (vulgar excrement/insult); the expression involves an idiomatic, valence-shifted slang sense. Because it is colloquial and vulgar and the overall meaning is not compositional, a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would likely not predict this usage.
Etymology
Hot shit may come from the image of something fresh and very noticeable, with hot meaning new and attention-grabbing and shit as a rude word for 'thing' or a person. When someone behaves like they are the most important thing in the room, people call them 'hot shit' to show they are 'arrogant'.