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a designation that splits cleanly between the celebrated and the condemned, depending on what's loaded.
means A person or thing that shoots — whether a marksman, an athlete taking aim at a goal, a small glass of liquor downed in one gulp, or a violent attacker.
from From the verb "shoot," which traces back to Old English "scēotan," meaning to dart, dash, or launch a missile — itself rooted in a Proto-Germanic word (related to forms surviving in Dutch "schieten" and German "schießen"). The agent suffix "-er" simply turns the action into the one who does it, the way "baker" follows "bake." The same ancient sense of sudden forward motion still lives in "shooting star" and a plant's new "shoot."
- glass origin
- Drinking sense predates firearms, from quick-tossed shots
- marble lore
- The big shooter marble is called a taw
- genre giant
- First-person shooters dominate global gaming revenue
- camera slang
- Photographers are shooters before they touch a gun
- hockey term
- A pure shooter scores rather than passes
columbine high school shooting — eric harris and dylan klebold killed 13 people in littleton, colorado on april 20, 1999
pulse nightclub shooting — omar mateen killed 49 people in orlando, florida on june 12, 2016