Hotshot

Hotshot or Hotshots or Hot Shot or Hot Shots may refer to:

• Heated shot, a heated projectile fired from a cannon
• Less than truckload shipping, industry jargon for smaller sized equipment that can move freight faster than tractor-trailers
• Hot shot (or hot load), a lethal injection of heroin or another opiate
• Interagency hotshot crew, an elite team of wildland firefighters

Books

• Hotshot, in the Hero Hotline comic series
• Hotshot, in the Starriors comic and toy line

Film and TV

Film

• Hotshot (film), 1987 American soccer film
• Hotshots, 1984 Philippines film with Aga Muhlach, Gary Valenciano, Eula Valdez
• Hot Shots (1956 film), a 1956 film starring The Bowery Boys
• Hot Shots!, a 1991 comedy film starring Charlie Sheen
• Hot Shots! Part Deux, a 1993 sequel to the 1991 film

Television

• Hot Shot (TV series), a 2008 Taiwanese drama Featuring Wu Chun, Show Luo & Jerry Yan
• Hot Shots (American TV series), an American shooting sports series
• Hot Shots (Canadian TV series), a Canadian drama series airing in 1986
• "Hot Shots" (The Wire), a 2003 episode of HBO's The Wire

Games

• Hot Shots Golf (series), the North American name of the video game franchise Everybody's Golf
• HotShot (video game)

Music

• Hotshot (band) (핫샷) 2014-present, a South Korean boy band
• Hotshot (1980s-2000s band), band including Mike Pont
• The Hotshots, a 1970s UK male vocal group, performers of the song Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
• Hotshots, a CD:UK British music programme series
• Hot Shot, a 2024 song by Japanese-American electronic music producer Tokyo Machine.

Albums

• Hot Shot (Karen Young album), a 1978 disco/pop album by American singer Karen Young
• Hot Shot (Shaggy album), a 2000 album by Shaggy
• Hot Shots (album), a 1979 album by Canadian band Trooper

• Hot Shots II, a 2001 album by The Beta Band

Songs

• "Hot Shot" (Barry Blue song), a 1974 song by Barry Blue and Lynsey de Paul
• "Hot Shot" (Karen Young song), a 1978 song by Karen Young
• "Hot Shot" (Cliff Richard song), a 1979 song by Cliff Richard from Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile
• "Hot Shot", a 1979 song by Tatsuro Yamashita from Moonglow (Tatsuro Yamashita album)
• "Hot Shot", a 1985 song by Jimmy Cliff from Cliff Hanger
• "Hot Shot", a 2003 song by Krokus from Rock the Block

Sports

• Arizona Hotshots, a professional American football team based in Tempe, Arizona
• Hotshot (basketball), a basketball shooting game
• Houston Hotshots, an indoor soccer team in Houston, Texas
• Southern Hotshots, an Australian field hockey team
• West Coast Hotshots, a basketball team based in Bend, Oregon
• Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters, formerly Pepsi Hotshots, a Philippine basketball team

In professional wrestling

• Hotshot (strategy), short-term promotional strategy (of any of several kinds)
• Hotshot (throw), a style of throw
• Reverse hotshot, or reverse hangman, a style of attack

Other uses

• Hot Shot (Transformers), the name of several robot superhero characters in the Transformers robot superhero franchise.
• Hot Shots (dance companies), a collective name for two Swedish dance companies that specialize in African American dances
• Hot Shot Hamish, a character in a British football-themed comic strips
• Hot Shot!, the 2009–10 FIRST Tech Challenge competition
• Ford Hot Shots, a curling competition
• Hot Shot, the brand name for a line of hot water makers made by Sunbeam Products
• Hot Shot, the brand name for an insecticide using Lambda-cyhalothrin
• Hot shot wind tunnel, for hypersonic testing
• Hotshot (railway), rail terminology for some high-priority trains
• Hotshot crew, a firefighting crew specially trained in wildland firefighting
  • Granite Mountain Hotshots, a fire crew in the Prescott, Arizona Fire Department
• Pantech Hotshot, a 3G device manufactured for Verizon
• Okay Hot-Shot, Okay! (1963), a painting by Ray Lichtenstein
• Hotshot Charlie, cartoon series by George Wunder
• Hotshot Eastbound (1956), photo by O. Winston Link