shootist
Americannoun
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a marksman with a pistol or rifle.
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a gunfighter, as in the Old West.
Etymology
Origin of shootist
Example Sentences
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Books is a fast-draw artist, a gunslinger or, as the movie's title phrases it, a shootist.
From Time Magazine Archive
They examined me as a rider, as a driver, as a shootist, as a cueist, in fact, in a range of subjects which I will not even venture to enumerate.
From Amusement Only by Marsh, Richard
No shootist ever brought down more birds at a shot, than he left men in that street rich in the morning, and ruined at night.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
P.S.—A youthful shootist bought the Poppyland book because he thought that it would tell him all about where to go popping.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various
How galling, then, for a true shootist to be misunderstood, decried, denounced, and arrested for so insignificant a beastie as a rabbit!
From Fiddles 1909 by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
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