gunfighter

American  

[guhn-fahy-ter] / ˈgʌnˌfaɪ tər /

noun

1. a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the American West.

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Etymology

Origin of gunfighter

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; gun ¹ + fighter

Example Sentences

Finbar is the longtime gunfighter who works by a strict moral code, looking to finally hang up his spurs and domesticate himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2024

With the genre mutating this way and that, the most mythologized gunfighter of them all is primed for another moment in the spotlight.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

The modified Springfield rifle that was buried alongside lawman and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickock in South Dakota in August 1876 is expected to fetch up to $200,000.

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2021

He also explains the importance of being able to see the monsters in nighttime scenes, creating a scruffy Kong acting like a retired gunfighter or an older Elvis and wishing he made Godzilla’s head bigger,

From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2021

Then I closed my grail diary and studied the Pac-Man machine in front of me, like a gunfighter sizing up an opponent.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline