Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is highly proficient at shooting.
- noun The second military grade of proficiency in the use of rifles and other small arms.
- noun One who holds this grade of proficiency.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One skilled in shooting with firearms, especially with the rifle; specifically, in military use, a skirmisher, or the occupant of a rifle-pit, posted to cut off outlying parties of the enemy, artillerists, or the like, or to prevent approach by the enemy to a ford or other object of importance.
- noun A swift, clipper-built schooner.
- noun Specifically: A soldier who makes 60 per cent, at target practice at ranges up to 1,000 yards.
- noun Any one of several hemipterous insects which puncture the cotton-boll, sometimes causing it to rot. Homalodisca coagulata is one of the commonest forms. The Mexican cotton-boll weevil was often called a ‘sharp-shooter’ when it was new in Texas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person trained to shoot
precisely with a certain type ofrifle ; amarksman
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters
- noun someone skilled in shooting
- noun an athlete noted for accurate aim
Etymologies
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Examples
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He admitted that the long red scar on his upper arm had been drilled by a sharpshooter from a German Fokker, but added hurriedly that it was of no consequence, as he had made a good landing.
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He admitted that the long red scar on his upper arm had been drilled by a sharpshooter from a German
One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Pierce's Disease almost always kills the host plant, hence the fear that the sharpshooter is a significant threat to the multi-million dollar California wine industry.
Archive 2002-07-01 John L. Trapp 2002
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GRACE: So you're saying these so-called sharpshooter isn't so sharp?
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Pierce's Disease almost always kills the host plant, hence the fear that the sharpshooter is a significant threat to the multi-million dollar California wine industry.
The Glassy-winged Sharpshooter is a What? John L. Trapp 2002
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It's a measure of Coach Hiro's grasp of the game that the Knights won their league without the presence of a tall sharpshooter, which is what Hiro was some two decades ago.
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The violence erupted later in the afternoon, and it's very clear that a sharpshooter was the one responsible for killing one of the protesters near the airport entrance.
Democracy Now! 2009
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The sharpshooter is a half-inch-long insect that damages grape vines 'circulation, interrupting the flow of water and nutrients.
unknown title 2009
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It's a measure of Coach Hiro's grasp of the game that the Knights won their league without the presence of a tall sharpshooter, which is what Hiro was some two decades ago.
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That is to say 'load and fire', or 'sharpshooter'.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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Such unmasking may contribute to what forensic experts call the sharpshooter fallacy: Someone fires a bullet in the side of a barn and then draws a circle around the bullet hole afterward to show they’ve hit their mark.
Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? Peter Andrey Smith 2023
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Such unmasking may contribute to what forensic experts call the sharpshooter fallacy: Someone fires a bullet in the side of a barn and then draws a circle around the bullet hole afterward to show they’ve hit their mark.
Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? Peter Andrey Smith 2023
minouchette commented on the word sharpshooter
a good dancer who spends his money freely
October 8, 2010