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shootists

shootists is the plural of shootist.

Meaning of shootist

Noun

shootist (plural shootists)

  1. (US, archaic) A person who is an expert user of firearms, especially a sharpshooter or a gunslinger in the Old West.
    • Not being a "shootist," I cannot lay the bird before you.1895, O. Widmann, “An Hour with Baird's and Leconte's Sparrows near St. Louis, Missouri”, in The Auk, volume 12, number 3, page 94

Questions about shootists

What is shootists the plural of?
Shootists is the plural of shootist.

Words near shootists in the dictionary

  1. shooting-jackets
  2. shootings
  3. shootingstar
  4. shootingstars
  5. shootist
  6. shootists
  7. shootless
  8. shootlessness
  9. shootlet
  10. shootlets
  11. shootlike

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