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  • noun Plural form of shootist.

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Examples

  • Tourists who shoot in Africa are called shootists to distinguish them from sportsmen.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • Tourists who shoot in Africa are called shootists to distinguish them from sportsmen.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • Tourists who shoot in Africa are called shootists to distinguish them from sportsmen.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • If it's a case of vandalism or setting fire to stolen cars (this kind of sign encourages mindless acts) then get the Game Conservancy shootists down for a bit of practice.

    A Kick in the Privates Peter Ashley 2008

  • "Green-shootists," who look to pinpoint early signs of economic recovery, may need to keep looking, Dave Kansas says.

    Debt-Rating Worries 2009

  • However, the one thing we know for sure is that the rest of the "civilised world" will look at the United States as a bunch of gun-crazed shootists who think their nation is the O.K.

    Misunderstanding Virginia Tech Matt Johnston 2007

  • Zee asked Helen, as the shootists paused and targets were being replaced.

    Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

  • Helen and I could shoot, but we would never be shootists.

    Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

  • "Certainly; but I don't fancy the French are very great 'shootists,' as the Yankees say."

    Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871

  • CIT went into the weekend with prospects that even the "green shootists" would have to call bleak.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

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