shooter:
(usually in combination with a relevant word; plural: ‘shooters‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a shooter (sports)
a person (or a gun or some other weapon) that shoots, i.e. a person who uses a weapon to hit his/her target… either at people to kill or at a dummy target as in sports;
a player in some ball games, such as basketball, who can throw (shoot) the ball into the basket very well;
(in a game of crap) a gambler who throws dice,
shooters, using guns to kill people
It has become a fashion in the USA for a shooter to walk into a school, mall or any club and start shooting at people with the terrible intention of killing them.
The Olympic shooters from my country have won two silver medals and one bronze medal in the free-style rifle shooting and air-gun shooting events.
Basketball players are in great demand and the ace shooters who seldom fail while shooting at the basket are in greater demand as the game is becoming more popular.
When there was trouble in the factory, the management sent a couple of trouble shooters to find out the problem and solve it then and there.
a basketball shooter, shooting the ball into the basket
Note 2: A ‘trouble-shooter’, on the other hand, is an experienced person/professional who knows how to solve mechanical problems in a factory or company, or a clever person who can act like a middleman and solve disputes between people. For a news article that shows us how we come across this phrase in our daily browsing, please click here.
