Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shot caller

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English

Syllables: shot -caller
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang.

Slang

noun

A prison inmate who holds informal authority over other inmates and who masterminds criminal activity.

American usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"'Cause I'm the creepy crawler that be crawling your walls / And I'm the shot caller when it comes to shot calls"
"Antonio Ramirez,^([sic]) is a shot caller (a leader) of the A Street gang, a powerful criminal organization in the southern part of the state."
"[…] the CDC's campaign to isolate other "shot callers" in its new generation of super maximum security prisons."
"A hotbed for fights and race riots has long been California's Pitchess Detention Center, a Los Angeles County prison. These battles are masterminded by tattooed gang leaders called shot callers."
"People already knew me from the streets, so when the previous shot caller was transferred to a different state prison, a leadership vacuum was created. I was asked to fill it. One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner."

Etymology

Deverbal from call the shots.

Usage

Slang
American usage

Inflected Forms

shot callers (plural) shot-caller (alternative) shotcaller (alternative)

Questions

What does shot caller mean?: Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang.
Where does shot caller come from?: Deverbal from call the shots.

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