shooter
part of speech
noun (a shooter, shooters)
meaning for a pupil
1) A person who shoots a gun, arrow or ball. tree →
2) (sport) A player who shoots at goal, for example in netball or basketball, where the shooter is the player allowed to score. tree →
3) (informal) A gun. tree →
4) A video game where players shoot things («a shooter game»). tree →
5) (slang) A small glass of strong alcoholic drink drunk quickly — for adults. tree →
6) A pea-shooter is a toy tube that you blow through to shoot out small things like peas. tree →
sense in the lessons
In news, a «shooter» is someone who fired a gun and hurt people — a serious, frightening word. In netball (UK, Australia, NZ) the Goal Shooter is a position. In games, «first-person shooter» is a type. Phrases: «sharp shooter», «straight shooter» (an honest person), «goal shooter».
examples
- She plays Goal Shooter in the netball team. tree →
- He is the best three-point shooter on the basketball team. tree →
- The police caught the shooter quickly. tree →
- My uncle is a straight shooter — he always tells the truth. tree →
- That video game is a shooter, rated for adults. tree →
- The archer was a sharp shooter who hit the middle every time. tree →
- In the Western film, the shooter rode into town. tree →
- And she blew in at one end, and blew little Pivi out at the other, like a pea from a pea-shooter. tree →
note
Countable; plural «shooters». «Straight shooter» (informal) is praise: an honest person. If you ever hear shots or see someone with a gun, get away, hide and tell an adult or call 999/911/000/111. Many shooter games have age ratings above primary-school age.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «shooter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.