shooter
/ˈʃuːtəː/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The shooter put a bullet clean through her head."
- "Craps involves someone rolling the dice (a shooter) and additional bettors. The game works like this: The first roll is called a come out roll. There are three conditions: 1. If the dice total is 7 or 11, the shooter wins. […]"
- "Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker."
- "I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore."
- "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."
- "We drink tequila as a shooter, but prefer to sip gin slowly to appreciate the flavour."
Etymology
From Middle English schoter, schuter, schotter, scheter, schetare, scheotere, from Old English sċēotere (“shooter”), equivalent to shoot + -er. Compare Dutch schieter, schutter (“shooter”), German Schießer (“shooter”), Swedish skjutare, West Frisian sjitter (“shooter”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: schoter, sċēotere
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈʃuːtəː/