shooter
See also: 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(key): /ˈʃuːtə(ɹ)/
Audio (AU) (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. […]
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- (slang) A firearm.
- A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- (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.
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- 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.
Synonyms
- (one who shoots): marksman
- (firearm): blaster
- (type of video game): shoot-'em-up
Derived terms
- active shooter
- angle shooter
- bean-shooter
- biscuit shooter
- goal shooter
- jello shooter
- oyster shooter
- peashooter
- point-and-shooter
- poodle shooter
- rail shooter
- salad shooter
- seven-shooter
- sharpshooter
- shootress
- six-shooter
- square shooter
- straight shooter
- tube shooter
- volume shooter
- wing shooter
Translations
person
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firearm
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game
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Anagrams
- hooters, re-shoot, reshoot, sheroot, soother
French
Etymology
From English shoot + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃu.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
shooter
- (sports) to shoot the ball forward in an attempt to place it in the opponent's goal
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to shoot up, inject oneself with drugs
Conjugation
Conjugation of shooter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | shooter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- “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)