shooter
See also: Shooter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʃuːtə(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]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.
- A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- Hypernym: war game
- Hyponym: first-person shooter
- (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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (one who shoots): marksman
- (firearm): blaster
- (type of video game): shoot-'em-up
Derived terms
[edit]- 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
- 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
- shooter shirt
- shootress
- six-shooter
- six-shooter
- square-shooter
- square shooter
- straight-shooter
- straight shooter
- third-person shooter
- tube shooter
- volume shooter
- wing shooter
Translations
[edit]person
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firearm
game
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]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
[edit]Conjugation of shooter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | shooter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | shootant /ʃu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | shooté /ʃu.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | shoote /ʃut/ |
shootes /ʃut/ |
shoote /ʃut/ |
shootons /ʃu.tɔ̃/ |
shootez /ʃu.te/ |
shootent /ʃut/ |
imperfect | shootais /ʃu.tɛ/ |
shootais /ʃu.tɛ/ |
shootait /ʃu.tɛ/ |
shootions /ʃu.tjɔ̃/ |
shootiez /ʃu.tje/ |
shootaient /ʃu.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | shootai /ʃu.te/ |
shootas /ʃu.ta/ |
shoota /ʃu.ta/ |
shootâmes /ʃu.tam/ |
shootâtes /ʃu.tat/ |
shootèrent /ʃu.tɛʁ/ | |
future | shooterai /ʃu.tʁe/ |
shooteras /ʃu.tʁa/ |
shootera /ʃu.tʁa/ |
shooterons /ʃu.tʁɔ̃/ |
shooterez /ʃu.tʁe/ |
shooteront /ʃu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | shooterais /ʃu.tʁɛ/ |
shooterais /ʃu.tʁɛ/ |
shooterait /ʃu.tʁɛ/ |
shooterions /ʃu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
shooteriez /ʃu.tə.ʁje/ |
shooteraient /ʃu.tʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | shoote /ʃut/ |
shootes /ʃut/ |
shoote /ʃut/ |
shootions /ʃu.tjɔ̃/ |
shootiez /ʃu.tje/ |
shootent /ʃut/ |
imperfect2 | shootasse /ʃu.tas/ |
shootasses /ʃu.tas/ |
shootât /ʃu.ta/ |
shootassions /ʃu.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
shootassiez /ʃu.ta.sje/ |
shootassent /ʃu.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | shoote /ʃut/ |
— | shootons /ʃu.tɔ̃/ |
shootez /ʃu.te/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “shooter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]shooter m (plural shooters or shooter)
- shooter (game)
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