Whiz-kid (Noun)
Meaning
Someone whose career progresses rapidly.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The young programmer was a whiz-kid in the company, rising from intern to team leader within two years.
- Local boy turned whiz-kid, Ethan graduated college at 17 and earned his MBA at 22.
- His meteoric rise to fame made him the industry's latest whiz-kid with a seven-figure salary to match.
- Alexa was a whiz-kid in the business world, starting her first company at age 15 and having it acquired by Google five years later.
- The city's new financial director, Rachel, is being hailed as a whiz-kid after turning around the city's budget in just six months.