# shooter
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English schoter, schuter, schotter, scheter, schetare, scheotere, from Old English sċēotere (“shooter”), equivalent to shoot +‎ -er. Compare Dutch schieter, schutter (“shooter”), German Schießer (“shooter”), Swedish skjutare, West Frisian sjitter (“shooter”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃuːtə(ɹ)/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

### Noun

shooter (plural shooters)
* Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
    The shooter put a bullet clean through her head.
* (craps) The player throwing the dice.
** 2015, Steven Lott, Functional Python Programming, page 276:Craps involves someone rolling the dice (a shooter) and additional bettors. The game works like this: The first roll is called a come out roll. There are three conditions: 1. If the dice total is 7 or 11, the shooter wins. […]
* (slang) A firearm.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm
** 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188:Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.
* (slang) An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
* (by extension) A loyal advocate or fan.
* (video games) A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
    Hypernym: war game
    Hyponym: first-person shooter
** 2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335:I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore.
* (professional wrestling slang) A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style, or who speaks his mind during a live or televised event (instead of speaking from a script).
* A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
** 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008:You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.
* An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
    We drink tequila as a shooter, but prefer to sip gin slowly to appreciate the flavour.
* (rare) A shooting star.
* (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
* (cricket) A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
* (slang) A photographer or cameraman.

#### Synonyms

* (one who shoots): marksman
* (firearm): blaster
* (type of video game): shoot-'em-up

#### Derived terms

* active shooter
* angle-shooter
* angle shooter
* bean-shooter
* biscuit shooter
* boomer shooter
* chip shooter
* corridor shooter
* ego shooter
* first-person shooter
* goal shooter
* hero shooter
* hip-shooter
* jello shooter
* mall shooter
* mass shooter
* new shooter
* nigger shooter
* oyster shooter
* pea-shooter
* peashooter
* point-and-shooter
* poodle shooter
* rail shooter
* salad shooter
* school shooter
* seven-shooter
* sharpshooter
* shooter cup
* shooter glass
* shooter shirt
* shootress
* six-shooter
* square-shooter
* square shooter
* straight shooter
* straight-shooter
* third-person shooter
* tube shooter
* volume shooter
* wing shooter

#### Translations
### See also

* shooter sowar (probably etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* hooters, re-shoot, reshoot, sheroot, soother

## French
### Etymology

From English shoot +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃu.te/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

shooter
* (sports) to shoot the ball forward in an attempt to place it in the opponent's goal
* (pronominal) to shoot up, inject oneself with drugs

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “shooter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Spanish
### Noun

shooter m (plural shooters or shooter)
* shooter (game)