Someone whose career progresses rapidly.
1 He was a mathematics whizz - kid and destined for Harvard and great things.
2 My brother was a bit of a whizz - kid at the piano.
3 Dr Sato the programming whizz - kid , first into the office and last to leave every day.
4 You're supposed to be the Organization's technical whizz-kid .
5 A COMPUTER whizz - kid from Cork has become one of the world's youngest app developers with a best-selling game based on pizza slices and salami.
6 Now, you don't have to be a math whizz - kid to know that an extra R200 worth of fuel would have made R500.
7 Most of us regard scientific whizz - kids as a different breed to arty types.
8 Well, if Lauren Fletcher and his team of whizz - kids over a at BioCarbon have anything to say about it, this'll all change very soon.
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