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shooter

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈʃuːtəː//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈʃʰʊu̯tʰəː]/
  • //ˈʃʉːtə//
  • /[ˈʃʰʊ̈ʉtʰəː] ~ [ˈʃʰʊ̈ʉːtʰɐ̝ː]/

Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.

    The shooter put a bullet clean through her head.

  2. 2

    The player throwing the dice.

    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. […]

  3. 3

    A device for shooting.

  4. 4

    slangA firearm.

    Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.

  5. 5

    slangAn associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.

  6. 6

    A loyal advocate or fan.

  7. 7

    A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.

    I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore.

  8. 8

    slangA 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).

  9. 9

    A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.

    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.

  10. 10

    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.

  11. 11

    rareA shooting star.

  12. 12

    A device supposed to accumulate orgone.

  13. 13

    A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.

  14. 14

    slangA photographer or cameraman.

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”).

Forms

plural
shooters
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).