shooter

See also: Shooter

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (non-rhotic)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːtəː/, [ˈʃʰʊu̯tʰəː]
  • (Australia)
    • (without t-flapping) IPA^(key): /ˈʃʉːtə/, [ˈʃʰʊ̈ʉtʰəː] ~ [ˈʃʰʊ̈ʉːtʰɐ̝ː]

      • Audio (Australia):

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    • (t-flapping) IPA^(key): /ˈʃʉːtə/, [ˈʃʰʊ̈ʉɾəː] ~ [ˈʃʰʊ̈ʉːɾɐ̝ː]
• (rhotic)
  • (General American)
    • (without t-flapping) IPA^(key): /ˈʃutɚ/, [ˈʃʰʊu̯tʰɚ] ~ [ˈʃʰʊu̯tʰɹ̩]
    • (t-flapping) IPA^(key): /ˈʃuɾɚ/, [ˈʃʰʊu̯ɾɚ] ~ [ˈʃʰʊu̯ɾɹ̩]

      • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: shoo‧ter

Noun

shooter (plural shooters)

1. Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.

   The shooter put a bullet clean through her head.

2. (craps) The player throwing the dice.
   • 2015, Steven Lott, Functional Python Programming, page 276:

     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. […]

3. A device for shooting.
4. (slang) A firearm.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188:

     Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.

5. (slang) An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
6. (by extension) A loyal advocate or fan.
8. (video games) A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.

   Hypernym: war game

   Hyponym: first-person shooter

   • 2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335:

     I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore.

9. (professional wrestling slang) 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).
10. A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
    • 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008:

      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.

11. 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.

12. (rare) A shooting star.
13. (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
14. (cricket) A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
15. (slang) A photographer or cameraman.

Synonyms

• (one who shoots): marksman
• (firearm): blaster
• (type of video game): shoot-'em-up

Derived terms

• 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
• six-shooter
• snapshooter
• square shooter
• square-shooter
• straight shooter
• straight-shooter
• third-person shooter
• trapshooter
• troubleshooter
• tube shooter
• volume shooter
• wing shooter

Translations

person

• Altai:

  Southern Altai: адучы (adučï)

• Arabic: رَامٍ m (rāmin), رَامِيَة f (rāmiya)
• Belarusian: страле́ц m (straljéc), страло́к m (stralók)
• Bulgarian: стреле́ц m (streléc)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 射手 (zh) (shèshǒu)

• Czech: střelec (cs) m, střelkyně (cs) f
• Dutch: schutter (nl) m
• Esperanto: pafisto
• Estonian: tulistaja
• Finnish: ampuja (fi)
• French: tireur (fr) m, tireuse (fr) f
• Galician: tirador m
• German: Schütze (de) m, Schützin (de) f, Schießer (de) m, Schießerin (de) f
• Greek: σκοπευτής (el) m (skopeftís)
• Icelandic: skytta f, skotmaður m, byssumaður m (dangerous person with a gun)
• Italian: tiratore (it) m, tiratrice f
• Japanese: 射手 (ja) (しゃしゅ, shashu; いて, ite)
• Korean: 사수(射手) (ko) (sasu)
• Kumyk: атывчу (atıwçu)
• Kyrgyz: аткыч (ky) (atkıc)
• Latvian: šāvējs m, šāvēja f
• Lithuanian: šaulys m
• Macedonian: стрелец m (strelec)
• Māori: kaipuhi
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: лӱйышӧ (lüjyšö)

• Old English: sċytta m
• Persian: تیرانداز (fa) (tirândâz)
• Polish: strzelec (pl) m, strzelczyni f
• Portuguese: atirador (pt) m, atiradora f
• Russian: стрело́к (ru) m (strelók), стреле́ц (ru) m (streléc) (historical), шу́тер (ru) m (šútɛr) (neologism)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стре́лац m, стрије́лац m

  Latin: strélac (sh) m, strijélac (sh) m

• Slovak: strelec m, strelkyňa f
• Slovene: strelec (sl) m
• Spanish: tirador (es) m, tiradora (es) f
• Swedish: skytt (sv) c
• Tajik: тирандоз (tirandoz)
• Ukrainian: стріле́ць m (strilécʹ)
• Vietnamese: xạ thủ (vi), tay súng
• Yiddish: שאָסער m (shoser)

firearm

• Bulgarian: огнестрелно оръжие (ognestrelno orăžie)
• Finnish: tuliase (fi)
• French: flingue (fr) m
• German: Knarre (de) f
• Māori: pū
• Polish: spluwa (pl) f

game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 射擊遊戲 / 射击游戏 (shèjí yóuxì)

• Finnish: räiskintäpeli (fi), ammuntapeli (fi)
• French: jeu de fusillade m
• German: Ballerspiel (de) n
• Icelandic: byssuleikur m
• Italian: sparatutto (it) m
• Polish: strzelanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: jogo de tiro m
• Russian: шу́тер (ru) m (šútɛr), стреля́лка (ru) f (streljálka) (slang)

See also

• shooter sowar (probably etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• hooters, re-shoot, reshoot, sheroot, soother

French

Etymology

From English shoot +‎ -er. First attested in 1900.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.te/

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• Hyphenation: shoo‧ter

Verb

shooter

1. (sports) to shoot the ball forward in an attempt to place it in the opponent's goal
2. (pronominal) to shoot up, inject oneself with drugs

Conjugation

Conjugation of shooter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	shooter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	shootant /ʃu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		shooté /ʃu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	shoote /ʃut/	shootes /ʃut/	shoote /ʃut/	shootons /ʃu.tɔ̃/	shootez /ʃu.te/	shootent /ʃut/
	imperfect	shootais /ʃu.tɛ/	shootais /ʃu.tɛ/	shootait /ʃu.tɛ/	shootions /ʃu.tjɔ̃/	shootiez /ʃu.tje/	shootaient /ʃu.tɛ/
	past historic2	shootai /ʃu.te/	shootas /ʃu.ta/	shoota /ʃu.ta/	shootâmes /ʃu.tam/	shootâtes /ʃu.tat/	shootèrent /ʃu.tɛʁ/
	future	shooterai /ʃu.tʁe/	shooteras /ʃu.tʁa/	shootera /ʃu.tʁa/	shooterons /ʃu.tʁɔ̃/	shooterez /ʃu.tʁe/	shooteront /ʃu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	shooterais /ʃu.tʁɛ/	shooterais /ʃu.tʁɛ/	shooterait /ʃu.tʁɛ/	shooterions /ʃu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	shooteriez /ʃu.tə.ʁje/	shooteraient /ʃu.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	shoote /ʃut/	shootes /ʃut/	shoote /ʃut/	shootions /ʃu.tjɔ̃/	shootiez /ʃu.tje/	shootent /ʃut/
	imperfect2	shootasse /ʃu.tas/	shootasses /ʃu.tas/	shootât /ʃu.ta/	shootassions /ʃu.ta.sjɔ̃/	shootassiez /ʃu.ta.sje/	shootassent /ʃu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	shoote /ʃut/	—	shootons /ʃu.tɔ̃/	shootez /ʃu.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “shooter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shooter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuteɾ/ [ˈʃu.t̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -uteɾ
• Syllabification: shoo‧ter

Noun

shooter m (plural shooters or shooter)

1. shooter (game)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.