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n. Informal
A young person who is exceptionally intelligent, innovatively clever, or precociously successful.

[Alteration of Quiz Kid, a panelist on an early game show.]


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IN BRIEF: n. - Someone whose career progresses rapidly.

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A whiz kid is a highly intelligent stock character in literature and media.

Whiz Kids may also refer to:

  • Whiz Kids (baseball), the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, who had an average age of 26, the youngest squad to ever win the National League pennant, and at that time the youngest to ever play in a World Series
  • Whiz Kids (book) by Jesee K Mwaura. A collection of 60 biographies
  • Whiz Kids (Department of Defense), members of US President John F. Kennedy's administration, led by Robert S. McNamara
  • Whiz Kids (Ford), a group of post-WWII Ford Motor Company executives
  • Whiz Kids (TV series), a 1983 American adventure TV series about a group of teenaged computer hackers who work as amateur detectives

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - vidunderbarn

Français (French)
n. - jeune prodige

Deutsch (German)
n. - heller Kopf, (ugs.) Senkrechtstarter

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - παιδί θαύμα, άσος, σαϊνι

Italiano (Italian)
giovane sveglio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - prodígio (m)

Русский (Russian)
вундеркинд, талантливый молодой специалист

Español (Spanish)
n. - joven brillante o muy exitoso, prodigio

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - underbarn

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
神童, 年青有为的人才

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 神童, 年青有為的人才

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 신동, 수재

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 神童, 天才少年

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ילד פלא, אשף‬


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