hot shit
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9.9
- noun
- /hɑt ʃɪt/
- Offensive
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impresionante
- My dogs like me, and after feeding about 60 deer this winter, they think I'm pretty hot shit.
Weigh in if you think we're hot shit on Apple.
- Weigh in if you think we're hot shit on Apple.
- And fortunately here these guys were just hot shit pilots.
- I had a little three-year window where I kind of was hot shit.
- But what I mean on top of that is you need to show yourself how hot shit you are.
Examples
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That's some hot shit right there!
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You deserve better, you are hot shit.
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Okay, hot shit, let's do it.
Fiction book (1991) -
That's some hot shit right there.
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You hot shit.
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This toaster giveaways, and Barry Manilow on the speakers all day - she thought this was really hot shit.
Fiction book (1991) -
Everyone in the competition knew you were hot shit after your amazing performance.
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His latest album is hot shit; it’s already topping the charts.
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After winning the award, she felt like hot shit among her peers.
Synonyms
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7.2
A person or thing that many people like and find exciting
Antonyms
How Impressive
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 putting together hot meaning very new or popular and shit as a rude word for 'thing', so the picture is of something everyone wants. That is why it is used to mean 'something extremely impressive or desirable'.