Crossword clues for shooter
shooter
- Certain marble
- Sharp end?
- Manhunt quarry
- Straight ___
- Place for a pea
- Person with the dice, in craps
- Word with sharp or trouble
- Violent video game
- Small alcoholic drink
- Player with the dice at a craps table
- Player at the craps table
- One known for sight seeing?
- Main marble
- Basketballer, often
- Basket maker, maybe
- Alcoholic drink consumed in one gulp
- Shutterbug
- Marksman
- Trigger
- Big marble
- A professional killer who uses a gun
- A gambler who throws dice in the game of craps
- Tell was one
- Word with pea or straight
- Michael Jordan is one
- Triggerman
- Straight or sharp follower
- One who has an attempt at goal that rolls along the ground
- Something like an owl on son's arm
- Playing marble
- Quick drink
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shooter \Shoot"er\, n.
One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
-
That which shoots. Specifically:
A firearm; as, a five-shooter. [Colloq. U.S.]
A shooting star. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sceotere "one who shoots," agent noun from shoot (v.). As a type of gun from 1812; as a small alcoholic drink, 1971. Shootee is attested from 1837.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc. 2 (context slang English) A firearm. 3 A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective. 4 (context professional wrestling slang English) 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. 6 An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass. 7 A shooting star.
WordNet
n. a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles [syn: taw]
a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter" [syn: shot]
a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps [syn: crap-shooter]
(sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket)
a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo]
Wikipedia
- A shooter is someone who shoots something
Shooter or shooters may also refer to:
A shooter is a neologism for an alcoholic mixed drink that contains of two or more spirits. Some shooters also have a non-alcoholic ingredient. They are generally drunk quickly, rather than being sipped.
Shooters can be shaken, stirred, blended, layered, or simply poured. Shot glasses or sherry glasses are the usual drinkware in which shooters are served. They are most commonly served at bars, and some bartenders have their own "signature" shooter.
The ingredients of shooters vary from bartender to bartender and from region to region. Two shooters can have the same name but different ingredients, resulting in two very different tastes.
Shooter is a 2007 American conspiracy action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua based on the novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. The film follows United States Marine Corps veteran Bob Lee Swagger ( Mark Wahlberg), who is framed for murder by a rogue secret private military company unit. The film also stars Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara and Ned Beatty and was released in the United States on March 23, 2007.
Shooter is an upcoming American television drama series, based on the novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter, and the 2007 film of the same name. USA picked up the pilot in August 2015, and ordered the pilot to series in February 2016.
The series was originally set to premiere on July 19, 2016 but was postponed a week to July 26, due to the July 7 Dallas shootings. Following the Baton Rouge shootings on July 17, the series was pulled from USA's summer schedule entirely.
"Shooter" is the third single from Lil Wayne's fifth studio album Tha Carter II, and is the second single on Robin Thicke's second studio album The Evolution of Robin Thicke. The song was also featured on the Like Father, Like Son bonus disc. The song samples the electric piano from Vic Juris’ "Horizon Drive," which was also sampled in and is recognizable from Gang Starr's "Mass Appeal." It is a remake of Robin Thicke's "Oh Shooter", from his first album A Beautiful World, which was inspired by Thicke's real-life experience of being caught in a bank robbery when he was 18.
Shooter was a 1988 TV pilot that NBC decided not to pick up as a series. Instead NBC aired the pilot as a TV movie of the week.The film is based on the book "Shooter" by and about Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer David Hume Kennerly. Kennerly had been a combat photo journalist during the Vietnam War. Later he was the White House photographer for president Gerald Ford. The Shooter film followed the adventures of a fictional photo journalist Matt Thompson in Vietnam played by Jeffrey Nordling, in his debut role. The TV pilot was made shortly after Good Morning Vietnam that had been a hit in theaters, and the TV film borrowed two actors from the Good Morning Vietnam cast, Noble Willingham and Cu Ba Nguyen, as well as having a free-spirited protagonist who is constantly clashing with his superiors. The pilot was filmed on location in Thailand. David Hume Kennerly served as executive producer and writer. Gary Nelson directed the film.
Usage examples of "shooter".
With an ease he knew would have surprised his Lucien, Tsecha stowed supplemental shooter power packs and assorted scanning and blocking devices within other pockets in the suit.
After disposing of the evidence, the shooter quickly rejoined his two comrades in the Citroen, and the car again sped off to the south, past the Montparnasse Cemetery where Pierre Sirois would be buried, and headed onto the autoroute for Troyes.
He rapped on the red hood the way a Craps shooter might blow on dice, and then the light had changed and the blotchy truck boomed on across the intersection.
Lo Manto grabbed his nine-millimeter and fired off three quick rounds in the direction of the shooters, the apartment now completely engulfed in smoke.
She saw Lo Manto on the other side of the car, prying open the back door and reaching in to check on the shooter.
Lo Manto picked up the chase, running full out for the side road, leaving the wounded shooter behind for the arriving cops to handle.
Lo Manto saw the second shooter, Elmo Stalli, come out of a vestibule in the middle of the street, walking up toward him, guns loaded and ready.
Rossi turned away from Lo Manto and walked fearlessly toward the shooter.
Domingos would be happy to furnish a well-trained shooter who would just as soon blast Platt as look at him.
Nothing was done, then or later, to establish responsibility, since deputizing the shooters made the shooting legal.
I know that when I got involved and Bobby needed a shooter to take me out of it Madelaine put him in touch with her old school chum Gerry Broz, who without knowing the shootee recommended Hawk.
Fortunately none struck him, and when the turkeys felt that they had had fun enough of that kind at his expense the bean shooter was returned to him.
Then again, maybe the clip embodies an absurdist view of life that he kept hidden from his peers, most of whom perceived him to have the famished appetites and clouded sensibility of a creature in a shooter game.
In Osage County there were some pretty small towns: Bigheart, Hulah, Okeas, Wild Horse, Shidler, White Eagle, Horseshoe, Kaw City, Hog Shooter, Rock Salt, Bluestem, each of these towns being smaller than its fellows.
Our ceramic cassegrain lasers were far superior to the nearest Terran equivalents, though not many Venerians cared to use weapons so heavy and unpleasant for the shooter.