Shooter Meaning

/ˈʃuːtəː/
B1

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

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nounSomeone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.

nounThe player throwing the dice.

He is a square shooter.
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
There was a school shooter threat at my school today.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The police arrested the ____ who fired the gun at the bank.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The Olympic ____ maintained perfect focus and hit the center of the target with every single shot.

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”).

"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. […]" — 2015, Steven Lott, Functional Python Programming, page 276:
"Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker." — 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188:
"I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore." — 2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335:
"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." — 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The police arrested the ____ who fired the gun at the bank.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The Olympic ____ maintained perfect focus and hit the center of the target with every single shot.

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