shooter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: alternative-medicine
ball-games
cricket
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
medicine
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sciences
sports
video-games
war
wrestling
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”).
Base: shoot
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shooters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The shooter put a bullet clean through her head.
gloss: The player throwing the dice.
pos: noun
examples: 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. […]
gloss: A device for shooting.
pos: noun
gloss: A firearm.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.
gloss: An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A loyal advocate or fan.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
pos: noun
examples: I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
pos: noun
examples: We drink tequila as a shooter, but prefer to sip gin slowly to appreciate the flavour.
gloss: A shooting star.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
pos: noun
gloss: A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
pos: noun
gloss: A photographer or cameraman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: shooter sowar
Derived words: active shooter
angle shooter
angle-shooter
bean-shooter
bean shooter
biscuit shooter
boomer shooter
bunkshooter
chip shooter
corridor shooter
crapshooter
ego shooter
extraction 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
sixshooter
snapshooter
square shooter
square-shooter
straight shooter
straight-shooter
third-person shooter
trapshooter
troubleshooter
tube shooter
volume shooter
wing shooter
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: адучы
roman: adučï
lang: Arabic
word: رَامٍ
roman: rāmin
lang: Arabic
word: رَامِيَة
roman: rāmiya
lang: Belarusian
word: страле́ц
roman: straljéc
lang: Belarusian
word: страло́к
roman: stralók
lang: Bulgarian
word: стреле́ц
roman: streléc
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 射手
roman: shèshǒu
lang: Czech
word: střelec
lang: Czech
word: střelkyně
lang: Dutch
word: schutter
lang: Esperanto
word: pafisto
lang: Estonian
word: tulistaja
lang: Finnish
word: ampuja
lang: French
word: tireur
lang: French
word: tireuse
lang: Galician
word: tirador
lang: German
word: Schütze
lang: German
word: Schützin
lang: German
word: Schießer
lang: German
word: Schießerin
lang: Greek
word: σκοπευτής
roman: skopeftís
lang: Icelandic
word: skytta
lang: Icelandic
word: skotmaður
lang: Icelandic
word: byssumaður
lang: Italian
word: tiratore
lang: Italian
word: tiratrice
lang: Japanese
word: 射手
lang: Korean
word: 사수
roman: sasu
lang: Kumyk
word: атывчу
roman: atıwçu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: аткыч
roman: atkıc
lang: Latvian
word: šāvējs
lang: Latvian
word: šāvēja
lang: Lithuanian
word: šaulys
lang: Macedonian
word: стрелец
roman: strelec
lang: Māori
word: kaipuhi
lang: Eastern Mari
word: лӱйышӧ
roman: lüjyšö
lang: Old English
word: sċytta
lang: Persian
word: تیرانداز
roman: tirândâz
lang: Polish
word: strzelec
lang: Polish
word: strzelczyni
lang: Portuguese
word: atirador
lang: Portuguese
word: atiradora
lang: Russian
word: стрело́к
roman: strelók
lang: Russian
word: стреле́ц
roman: streléc
lang: Russian
word: шу́тер
roman: šútɛr
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: стре́лац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: стрије́лац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: strélac
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: strijélac
lang: Slovak
word: strelec
lang: Slovak
word: strelkyňa
lang: Slovene
word: strelec
lang: Spanish
word: tirador
lang: Spanish
word: tiradora
lang: Swedish
word: skytt
lang: Tajik
word: тирандоз
roman: tirandoz
lang: Ukrainian
word: стріле́ць
roman: strilécʹ
lang: Vietnamese
word: xạ thủ
lang: Vietnamese
word: tay súng
lang: Yiddish
word: שאָסער
roman: shoser