Definitions
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- noun someone whose career progresses rapidly
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Examples
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The artwork for Norwegian disco whizz-kid Todd Terje's latest EP smacks of 1960s-era, far-out, rainbow-bright cartoons.
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So the parent doesn't necessarily need to be a whizz-kid, you're saying, in all of these subjects.
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I couldn't get out of my mind that whizz-kid Sixtus V.
The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
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After his cult hit Withnail & I, writer-director Bruce Robinson teamed up again with Richard E Grant for this misconceived satire about an advertising whizz-kid who develops an alter-ego in the form of a talking boil on his shoulder.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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Cartoonists who once pictured him as a whizz-kid, now drew him as an absent-minded professor.
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But whizz-kid O'Connor warned it was just an appetiser for the main course - the showdown with Wales.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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Alexandre Tharaud is the latest young piano whizz-kid to establish himself with an album of Chopin pieces, following
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And yet the whizz-kid on the radio admitted that the only reason no-one saw the US property crash coming was that, in drawing up the figures for projected growth in house prices, no-one looked far enough back in history to see that house prices sometimes collapse.
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I WAS intrigued by a financial whizz-kid on the radio yesterday describing the global credit crisis as "a black swan event."
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Alexandre Tharaud is the latest young piano whizz-kid to establish himself with an album of Chopin pieces, following
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