sniper:
(plural: ‘snipers‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a sniper, hiding behind a bush, aiming at his target
a specially trained marksman whose job in the Army or the Police is to shoot at enemies from a faraway hiding place;
any shooter who shoots at people in order to kill them from a hiding place (not necessarily in the Army or the Police),
snipers on a roof-top, waiting for the criminals to show up on the street below
Capt. George is the best sniper and has a record of 79 enemy killings under his cap.
In the modern day warfare, more soldiers at the battle front are killed by snipers than by direct gunfire or by aerial bombing.
It’s become common these days to read a news item or two about some snipers, ordinary people who went crazy in their minds, shooting to kill innocent people at malls and schools just to get some media attention or for some imagined cause of their own!
