sharpshooter

English

Etymology

sharp + shooter, a calque of German Scharfschütze.

Noun

sharpshooter (plural sharpshooters)

1. A person trained to shoot precisely with a rifle; a marksman.

   Coordinate terms: rifleman, sniper

2. A proconiine (type of leafhopper).
3. (professional wrestling) A submission hold characterized by one wrestler twisting the other's legs upwards while sitting on their back.

Derived terms

• glassy-winged sharpshooter
• orange sharpshooter
• Texas sharpshooter fallacy

Translations

marksman

• Afrikaans: skerpskutter
• Bashkir: снайпер (snayper), мәргән (mərgən)
• Bulgarian: сна́йпер m (snájper)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神槍手／神枪手 (zh) (shénqiāngshǒu), 狙擊兵／狙击兵 (zh) (jūjībīng), 射手 (zh) (shèshǒu)

• Danish: skarpskytte c, finskytte c (army)
• Dutch: scherpschutter (nl) m
• Finnish: tarkka-ampuja (fi)
• French: tireur d’élite (fr) m
• German: Scharfschütze (de) m, Scharfschützin (de) f
• Greek: άριστος σκοπευτής (áristos skopeftís), επιδέξιος σκοπευτής (epidéxios skopeftís)
• Hebrew: צַלָף (he) (tsalaf)
• Hungarian: mesterlövész (hu)
• Indonesian: penembak jitu (id)
• Italian: tiratore scelto m, tiratrice scelta f
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: вик лӱйышӧ (vik lüjyšö)

• Polish: strzelec wyborowy m
• Portuguese: atirador de elite m
• Russian: сна́йпер (ru) m (snájper), ме́ткий стрело́к m (métkij strelók)
• Spanish: francotirador (es) m
• Swedish: skarpskytt (sv) c
• Thai: นักแม่นปืน (nák-mɛ̂n-bpʉʉn)
• Turkish: atıcı (tr), nişancı (tr)
• Vietnamese: xạ thủ (vi), nhà thiện xạ