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shot-caller

shot-caller is the alternative form of shot caller.

Meaning of shot caller

Noun

shot caller (plural shot callers)

  1. (slang) Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang.
    • 'Cause I'm the creepy crawler that be crawling your walls / And I'm the shot caller when it comes to shot calls2004, “Oh Word?”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys
  2. (US, slang) A prison inmate who holds informal authority over other inmates and who masterminds criminal activity.
    • […] the CDC's campaign to isolate other "shot callers" in its new generation of super maximum security prisons.2000, Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, page 198

Forms of shot-caller

pluralshot-callers

Questions about shot-caller

What is shot-caller the alternative form of?
Shot-caller is the alternative form of shot caller.

Words near shot-caller in the dictionary

  1. shot trouble
  2. shot up
  3. shot welding
  4. shot with a shovel
  5. shot-blasting
  6. shot-caller
  7. shot-callers
  8. shot-clog
  9. shot-clogs
  10. shot-drill
  11. shot-firer

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