whiz-kid
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈwɪzˌkɪd/
- Informal
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niño prodigio
- MAX: This guy, Dobbs, was once a stock-market whiz kid.
- whiz-kid from Harvard
- financial whiz-kids
- tech whiz-kid
Tech genius, tech whiz kid, financial genius.
- Tech genius, tech whiz kid, financial genius.
- You know, it's just, but Christopher just he was born whiz kid.
Examples
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I'm a whiz kid, too.
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Aaron Swartz was an internet whiz kid.
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- Once the whiz kid of the local restaurant scene...
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Bit of a whiz kid in their technical section.
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Emily, our new whiz-kid lawyer.
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Your mother was a math teacher, and I was pretty much a whiz kid myself.
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What began as the brainchild of this Madison Avenue whiz kid is now a craze sweeping the nation.
Fiction book (1994) -
Whiz kid of Wall Street, Barron's Man of the Year at 22: Clayton Beresford, Jr.
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The event kicked off with the wit and vivid imagery of Stelios Papadopolous' unlikely journey from biology academic to Wall Street whizz kid, first as a stock analyst and later as an investment banker.
Blog text (31) -
Everyone here knows Durand as a whiz kid who started two multi-million-dollar companies before he was 32.
Synonyms
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7.3
A person who is very skilled at something like math or computers
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6.7
A young person who is very talented in one area and impresses people
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8.2
A person who is very smart and good at solving hard problems
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8.6
A person who is very skilled at a task or subject
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8.9
A young person with great skill and success in one area
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5.6
A young person who is unusually talented for their age
A person who is very skilled at a particular activity
Antonyms
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word whiz-kid joins whiz, a word that suggests a quick 'whizz' sound or an expert, and kid, meaning 'young person'. So, a whiz-kid is a young person who is very quick or clever at what they do, and we use it for someone who is unusually skilled.