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snapshooter

snapshooter noun: a photographer; someone who takes snapshots.

Noun

snapshooter (plural snapshooters)

  1. A photographer; someone who takes snapshots.
    • At home, on the street, Zuleika was the smiling target of all snap-shooters, and all the snap-shots were snapped up by the press and reproduced with annotations […].1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
  2. A camera designed specifically for taking snapshots
    • The Polaroid film cameras may be dead, but you can still have instant photos with the company’s new PoGo Instant Digital Camera, a compact snapshooter with a built-in printer […]2009 January 15, Rik Fairlie, “A Digital Camera for Those Who Like Instant Gratification”, in New York Times

Forms of snapshooter

pluralsnapshooters

Origin of snapshooter

From snap + shooter.

Questions about snapshooter

What does snapshooter mean?
Snapshooter means a photographer; someone who takes snapshots.
What part of speech is snapshooter?
Snapshooter is a noun.
What is the plural of snapshooter?
The plural of snapshooter is snapshooters.

Words near snapshooter in the dictionary

  1. snaps to attention
  2. snaps up
  3. snapsack
  4. snapsacks
  5. snapshoot
  6. snapshooter
  7. snapshooters
  8. snapshooting
  9. snapshoots
  10. snapshot
  11. snapshotist

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