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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
Noun
shooter (plural shooters)
- Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
The shooter put a bullet clean through her head.
- (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. […]
- (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.
- (slang) An associate willing to act in one's defence or to act against one's enemies, especially by force.
- (by extension) A loyal advocate or fan.
- A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- Hypernym: war game
- Hyponym: first-person shooter
- (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).
- 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.
- 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.
- (rare) A shooting star.
- (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
- (cricket) A delivery that skids after pitching, instead of bouncing.
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Derived terms
Translations
person
- 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)
- Italian: tiratore (it) m, tiratrice f
- Japanese: 射手 (ja) (しゃしゅ, shashu; いて, ite)
- Korean: 사수(射手) (ko) (sasu)
- Latvian: šāvējs m, šāvēja f
- Lithuanian: šaulys m
- Macedonian: стрелец m (strelec)
- Maori: kaipuhi
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: лӱйышӧ (lüjyšö)
- Old English: sċytta m
- Persian: تیرانداز (fa) (tirândâz)
- Polish: strzelec (pl) m
- 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
- Roman: 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)
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From English shoot + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
shooter
- (sports) to shoot the ball forward in an attempt to place it in the opponent's goal
- (pronominal) to shoot up, inject oneself with drugs
Conjugation
infinitive
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simple
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shooter
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compound
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avoir + past participle
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present participle or gerund1
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simple
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shootant /ʃu.tɑ̃/
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compound
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ayant + past participle
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past participle
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shooté /ʃu.te/
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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shoote /ʃut/
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shootes /ʃut/
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shoote /ʃut/
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shootons /ʃu.tɔ̃/
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shootez /ʃu.te/
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shootent /ʃut/
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imperfect
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shootais /ʃu.tɛ/
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shootais /ʃu.tɛ/
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shootait /ʃu.tɛ/
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shootions /ʃu.tjɔ̃/
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shootiez /ʃu.tje/
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shootaient /ʃu.tɛ/
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past historic2
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shootai /ʃu.te/
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shootas /ʃu.ta/
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shoota /ʃu.ta/
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shootâmes /ʃu.tam/
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shootâtes /ʃu.tat/
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shootèrent /ʃu.tɛʁ/
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future
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shooterai /ʃu.tʁe/
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shooteras /ʃu.tʁa/
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shootera /ʃu.tʁa/
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shooterons /ʃu.tʁɔ̃/
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shooterez /ʃu.tʁe/
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shooteront /ʃu.tʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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shooterais /ʃu.tʁɛ/
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shooterais /ʃu.tʁɛ/
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shooterait /ʃu.tʁɛ/
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shooterions /ʃu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/
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shooteriez /ʃu.tə.ʁje/
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shooteraient /ʃu.tʁɛ/
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(compound tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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shoote /ʃut/
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shootes /ʃut/
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shoote /ʃut/
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shootions /ʃu.tjɔ̃/
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shootiez /ʃu.tje/
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shootent /ʃut/
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imperfect2
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shootasse /ʃu.tas/
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shootasses /ʃu.tas/
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shootât /ʃu.ta/
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shootassions /ʃu.ta.sjɔ̃/
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shootassiez /ʃu.ta.sje/
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shootassent /ʃu.tas/
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(compound tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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simple
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—
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shoote /ʃut/
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—
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shootons /ʃu.tɔ̃/
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shootez /ʃu.te/
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—
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compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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Further reading
Spanish
Noun
shooter m (plural shooters or shooter)
- shooter (game)