shooter
English
/ˈʃuːtə(ɹ)/
noun
Definitions
- Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc.
- (slang) A firearm.
- A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- (professional wrestling) 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.
- An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
- A shooting star.
- (alternative medicine) A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English schoter inherited from Old English sċēotere (shooter) suffix from English shoot.
Origin
English
shoot
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- airshoot English
- atshoot English
- backshoot English
- crap English
- crapshoot English
- crapshooter English
- foreshoot English
- gut-shoot English
- inshoot English
- longshoot English
- microshoot English
- offshoot English
- oreshoot English
- outshoot English
- overshoot English
- pea English
- peashooter English
- photoshoot English
- reshoot English
- shoot English
- shootable English
- shootaround English
- shootee English
- shootest English
- shooteth English
- shootfighter English
- shootfighting English
- shoothouse English
- shooting English
- shootist English
- shootless English
- shootlet English
- shootlike English
- shootling English
- shootress English
- shootward English
- shooty English
- six English
- sixshooter English
- slingshoot English
- slop shoot English
- snap English
- snapshooter English
- trap English
- trapshooter English
- trouble English
- troubleshoot English
- troubleshooter English
- undershoot English
- unshoot English
- upshoot English
- watershoot English
- busschieter Dutch, Flemish
- schieter Dutch, Flemish
- chut Spanish, Castilian
- chutar Spanish, Castilian
- chutar Portuguese
- chuto Portuguese
- トラブルシューター Japanese
- 修斗 Japanese
- sċēotere Old English
- schoter Middle English
- shoten Middle English
- xut Catalan, Valencian
- siyot Cebuano
- şut Turkish
- شات Hijazi Arabic
- شات Gulf Arabic
- shotta Jamaican Creole
- shuda Kriol
- six
- pea
- snap
- trap
- crap
- shoot
- shooty
- atshoot
- unshoot
- inshoot
- upshoot
- shootee
- reshoot
- trouble
- shooting
- shooteth
- airshoot
- offshoot
- shootist
- oreshoot
- shootlet
- outshoot
- shootest
- gut-shoot
- shootling
- backshoot
- crapshoot
- overshoot
- longshoot
- shootlike
- shootable
- shootward
- shootless
- shootress
- foreshoot
- slop shoot
- microshoot
- undershoot
- peashooter
- slingshoot
- sixshooter
- watershoot
- photoshoot
- shoothouse
- crapshooter
- trapshooter
- snapshooter
- shootaround
- troubleshoot
- shootfighter
- shootfighting
- troubleshooter