shooter

English

Etymology

From shoot +‎ -er

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃuːtə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

shooter (plural shooters)

  1. Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer etc.
  2. (slang) A firearm.
  3. A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
  4. (professional wrestling slang) 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.
    • 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
      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.
  6. An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
  7. A shooting star.

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French

Etymology

From English "to shoot" with suffix -er (first group verb).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃu.te/

Verb

shooter

  1. (sports) to shoot the ball forward in an attempt to place it in the opponent's goal
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to shoot up, inject oneself with drugs

Conjugation
Conjugation of shooter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle shootant
/ʃu.tɑ̃/
past participle shooté
/ʃu.te/
infinitive
simple shooter
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple shootant
/ʃu.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present shoote
/ʃut/		 shootes
/ʃut/		 shoote
/ʃut/		 shootons
/ʃu.tɔ̃/		 shootez
/ʃu.te/		 shootent
/ʃut/
imperfect shootais
/ʃu.tɛ/		 shootais
/ʃu.tɛ/		 shootait
/ʃu.tɛ/		 shootions
/ʃu.tjɔ̃/		 shootiez
/ʃu.tje/		 shootaient
/ʃu.tɛ/
past historic2 shootai
/ʃu.te/		 shootas
/ʃu.ta/		 shoota
/ʃu.ta/		 shootâmes
/ʃu.tam/		 shootâtes
/ʃu.tat/		 shootèrent
/ʃu.tɛʁ/
future shooterai
/ʃu.tʁe/		 shooteras
/ʃu.tʁa/		 shootera
/ʃu.tʁa/		 shooterons
/ʃu.tʁɔ̃/		 shooterez
/ʃu.tʁe/		 shooteront
/ʃu.tʁɔ̃/
conditional shooterais
/ʃu.tʁɛ/		 shooterais
/ʃu.tʁɛ/		 shooterait
/ʃu.tʁɛ/		 shooterions
/ʃu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 shooteriez
/ʃu.tə.ʁje/		 shooteraient
/ʃu.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present shoote
/ʃut/		 shootes
/ʃut/		 shoote
/ʃut/		 shootions
/ʃu.tjɔ̃/		 shootiez
/ʃu.tje/		 shootent
/ʃut/
imperfect2 shootasse
/ʃu.tas/		 shootasses
/ʃu.tas/		 shootât
/ʃu.ta/		 shootassions
/ʃu.ta.sjɔ̃/		 shootassiez
/ʃu.ta.sje/		 shootassent
/ʃu.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — shoote
/ʃut/		 — shootons
/ʃu.tɔ̃/		 shootez
/ʃu.te/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

Spanish

Noun

shooter m (plural shooters or shooter)

  1. shooter (game)
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