shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuːtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shooters
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”).
Senses: examples: text: The shooter put a bullet clean through her head.
glosses: Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
examples: text: 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. […]
ref: 2015, Steven Lott, Functional Python Programming, page 276:
qualifier: craps
glosses: The player throwing the dice.
glosses: A device for shooting.
examples: text: Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188:
synonyms: word: firearm
word: gat
word: gun
word: iron
word: piece
glosses: A firearm.
glosses: An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
glosses: A loyal advocate or fan.
examples: text: I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore.
ref: 2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335:
topics: video-games
hypernyms: war game
glosses: A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: 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).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008:
glosses: A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
examples: text: We drink tequila as a shooter, but prefer to sip gin slowly to appreciate the flavour.
glosses: An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
glosses: A shooting star.
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
glosses: A photographer or cameraman.
Synonyms: sense: one who shoots
word: marksman
sense: firearm
word: blaster
sense: type of video game
word: 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
four-shooter
goal shooter
hero shooter
hip-shooter
jello shooter
mall shooter
mass shooter
new shooter
nigger shooter
oyster shooter
peashooter
pea-shooter
point-and-shooter
poodle shooter
rail shooter
salad shooter
school shooter
seven-shooter
sharpshooter
shooter cup
shooter glass
Shooters Hill
shooter shirt
shootress
six-shooter
square shooter
square-shooter
straight shooter
straight-shooter
third-person shooter
tube shooter
volume shooter
wing shooter
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: shooter sowar