shooter

English

Etymology

From shoot +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːtə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

shooter (plural shooters)

1. Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc.
2. (slang) A firearm.
3. A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
4. (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).
5. 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.

6. An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
7. A shooting star.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from shooter

• sharpshooter

• square shooter

• straight shooter

• shootress

Translations

person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 射手 (zh) (shèshǒu)

• Dutch: schutter (nl) m
• Esperanto: pafisto
• Finnish: ampuja (fi)
• French: tireur (fr) m
• German: Schütze (de) m
• Italian: tiratore m

• Japanese: 射手 (ja) (しゃしゅ, shashu; いて, ite)
• Maori: kaipuhi
• Old English: sċytta m
• Portuguese: atirador (pt) m
• Russian: стрело́к (ru) m (strelók)
• Slovene: strelec (sl) m
• Vietnamese: xạ thủ (vi), tay súng
• Yiddish: שאָסער‎‎ m (shoser)

firearm

• Finnish: tuliase (fi)
• French: flingue (fr) m

• German: Knarre (de) f
• Maori: pū

game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 射击游戏

• Finnish: räiskintäpeli (fi), ammuntapeli

• French: jeu m de fusillade
• German: Ballerspiel (de) n
• Russian: шутер (ru) (šuter)

Anagrams

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

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French

Etymology

From English "to shoot" with suffix -er (first group verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.te/

Verb

shooter

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

Conjugation

  Conjugation of shooter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		shooter			avoir shooté
gerund		en shootant			en ayant shooté
present participle		shootant /ʃu.tɑ̃/
past participle		shooté /ʃu.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	shoote /ʃut/	shootes /ʃut/	shoote /ʃut/	shootions /ʃu.tjɔ̃/	shootiez /ʃu.tje/	shootent /ʃut/
	imperfect1	shootasse /ʃu.tas/	shootasses /ʃu.tas/	shootât /ʃu.ta/	shootassions /ʃu.ta.sjɔ̃/	shootassiez /ʃu.ta.sje/	shootassent /ʃu.tas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	shoote /ʃut/	—	shootons /ʃu.tɔ̃/	shootez /ʃu.te/	—
1literary tenses

Further reading

• “shooter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Spanish

Noun

shooter m (plural shooters or shooter)

1. shooter (game)