shooter
Syllables: shoo·ter/ˈʃʉːtə/UK/ˈʃuːtəː/
shooter noun: someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
Noun
shooter (plural shooters)
- Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
- The shooter put a bullet clean through her head.
- Synonyms:
- marksman
- 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. […]2015, Steven Lott, Functional Python Programming, page 276
- A device for shooting.
- A 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.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188
- An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
- A loyal advocate or fan.
- 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.2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335
- Synonyms:
- shoot-'em-up
- 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.
- 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.2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- 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.
- A shooting star.
- A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
- A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
- A photographer or cameraman.
Proper noun capitalized: Shooter
Shooter
- A surname.
shooter meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
shooter in Hindi
- निशानेबाज, शूटर, निशानेबाज़
shooter in Tamil
- எய்பவர்
shooter in Marathi
- नेमबाज, गोळीबार करणारा
shooter in Urdu
- شوٹر, گولی مارنے والا, گولی چلانے والا
More languagesFewer languages
- shooter in Bengali
- শ্যুটার, শুটার
- shooter in Telugu
- షూటర్
- shooter in Malayalam
- ഷൂട്ടർ
- shooter in Kannada
- ಶೂಟರ್, ಗುಂಡು ಹಾರಿಸಿದವನು
- shooter in Punjabi
- ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨੇਬਾਜ਼, ਗੋਲੀ ਚਲਾਉਣ ਵਾਲਾ
- shooter in Gujarati
- શૂટર, નિશાનેબાજ, ગોળીબાર કરનાર
- shooter in Odia
- ବନ୍ଧୁକଚାଳକ, ଗୁଳିଚାଳନାକାରୀ
- shooter in Nepali
- शूटर, सुटर
- shooter in Arabic
- رَامٍ rāmin, رَامِيَة rāmiya
- shooter in Persian
- تیرانداز tirândâz
- shooter in Vietnamese
- xạ thủ, tay súng
Examples of shooter in a sentence
- Cornered by the authorities, the shooter turned the gun on himself.
- This shooter has a terrible taste, but is downable after a few pints.
- Early first-person shooter games used billboarding for enemies rather than full character models.
Synonyms of shooter
Forms of shooter
| plural | shooters |
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Origin of shooter
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”).
Words formed from shooter
- 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
Phrases with shooter
Words that rhyme with shooter
4 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about shooter
- What does shooter mean?
- Shooter means someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
- What is shooter in Hindi?
- Shooter in Hindi is निशानेबाज, शूटर, निशानेबाज़. See Shooter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is shooter?
- Shooter can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce shooter?
- Shooter is pronounced /ˈʃuːtəː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of shooter?
- The plural of shooter is shooters.
Words near shooter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shooter (page history and authors); Shooter (page history and authors); shooter (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shooter (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shooter (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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