shooter
shooter
Definition
shooter (s̸ho̵̅o̅t′ər)
noun
- a person or thing that shoots
- ☆ Slang a shot of whiskey or other liquor
shooter
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- scroll: Its a 2D scrolling shooter that plays really well over 5 huge levels of action.
- console: All the effort that has clearly been put into making this a console shooter rather than a PC port has obviously paid off.
- play: We must have spent hours typing code into that machine to play some dodgy shooter i think.
- base: Bugs beware: Empire Interactive's shooter based on sci-fi flick set to ship for PCs next month.
- allow: The Club also runs internal competitions, which are handicapped to allow all shooters to compete on an even level.
Adjective modifier
- squad-based: Star Wars Republic Commando is a squad-based first-person shooter that lets you explore the elite world of the Star Wars military.
- tactical: Like all other Tom Clancy games, Island Thunder is a tactical realistic shooter.
- 2d: The backgrounds appeared to be 3D, but the game itself was still a 2D shooter, if that makes sense.
- 3d: HG makes you think much more than any 3d shooter on the Amiga.
- upcoming: Ubi Soft Entertainment has announced that David Duchovny and Adam West will be starring in XIII, its upcoming first-person shooter.
- sharp: Orkney's sharp shooters claimed the county's first medal at the island games in Shetland.
Modifies a noun
- genre: EA has set a new standard in the first-person shooter genre on Game Boy Advance.
- fan: Still, if you're a serious shooter fan, you should at least give America's Army: Operations a try.
- game: Tho the PSP isn't really suited to shooter games, the controls have been well implemented here.
Noun used with modifier
- first-person: Several first-person shooters released over the past year have really set the bar pretty high.
- third-person: In summary then, Red Dead Revolver is your standard third-person shooter with a lot of frills that amount to very little.
- pigeon: Prince William is also a crack clay pigeon shooter, winning the school's prize in 1994.
- sci-fi: Crysis is a sci-fi first-person shooter from the award-winning developer Crytek, the developers of the critically acclaimed Far Cry.
- pistol: He has remained Britain's top international pistol shooter to date.
- multiplayer: Quake III vs Unreal Tournament: the war of the multiplayer shooters was on.
Browse dictionary entries near shooter
- shoot up
- shoot-the-chute
- shoot the bull
- shoot off one's mouth
- shoot'em-up
- shoot at
- shoot
- shoon
- shook
- shoofly
- shooting
- shooting gallery
- shooting iron
- shooting script
- shooting star
- shooting stick
- shootout
- shop
- shop floor
- shop steward
