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shotcaller

shotcaller 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 shotcaller

pluralshotcallers

Questions about shotcaller

What is shotcaller the alternative form of?
Shotcaller is the alternative form of shot caller.

Words near shotcaller in the dictionary

  1. shotas
  2. shotblast
  3. shotblasted
  4. shotblasting
  5. shotblasts
  6. shotcaller
  7. shotcallers
  8. shotcrete
  9. shotcreter
  10. shotcreters
  11. shotcretes

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