snapshooter

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English

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Etymology

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From snap +‎ shooter.

Noun

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snapshooter (plural snapshooters)

  1. (photography) A photographer; someone who takes snapshots.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      At home, on the street, Zuleika was the smiling target of all snap-shooters, and all the snap-shots were snapped up by the press and reproduced with annotations […].
  2. A camera designed specifically for taking snapshots
    • 2009 January 15, Rik Fairlie, “A Digital Camera for Those Who Like Instant Gratification”, in New York Times[1]:
      The Polaroid film cameras may be dead, but you can still have instant photos with the company’s new PoGo Instant Digital Camera, a compact snapshooter with a built-in printer []
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