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  • noun archaic A person who is an expert user of firearms, especially a hunter or a gunfighter in the Old West.

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  • Yes | No | Report from ishawooa wrote 1 year 48 weeks ago crm3006My friend Dave, the superb shootist, is a petroleum engineer by profession.

    Paper Versus Meat 2008

  • I told him my theory that the shootist was an amateur, since a pro, having the time to do it, would probably have killed the bodyguard first, then killed Marcus at his leisure.

    Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

  • If he is a self-schooled kind of shootist, he was undoubtedly away from that tree line.

    CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2002 2002

  • Dusty said Dory was what they would call a "shootist" in the Old West.

    PWInsider Latest Articles 2009

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