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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shootist

1864, from shoot (v.) + -ist.

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shootist

n. (context chiefly US archaic English) A person who is an expert user of firearms, especially a hunter or a gunfighter in the Old West.

Usage examples of "shootist".

The Margin towns began arming against them, hiring shootists from other nomad gangs as mercenaries to defend them against Baptiste and his constantly growing band of cutthroats.

The Shootist was not a detail man, and that made him a third-rate bank robber.