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| hotshot (an adulterated dose of a drug that is designed to be fatal when injected; a lethal injection of a narcotic, usually heroin. This term, from the vocabulary of addicts and the underworld, refers particularly to a deliberate lethal dose, either self-administered or as a gangland method of punishment and murder. Sometimes the hotshot is a high-strength overdose, sometimes a normal dose of the drug mixed with a toxic substance: The guys put him away with a Drano hot-shot Taras) | |||