Sharpshooter Definition

shärpsho͝otər
sharpshooters
noun
sharpshooters
One who is highly proficient at shooting.
American Heritage
A person who shoots with great accuracy; good marksman.
Webster's New World
The second military grade of proficiency in the use of rifles and other small arms.
American Heritage
One who holds this grade of proficiency.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Sharpshooter

Noun

Singular:
sharpshooter
Plural:
sharpshooters

Origin of Sharpshooter

  • calque translation of German Scharfschütze

    From Wiktionary

Sharpshooter Sentence Examples

  • A bullet fired by a French sharpshooter hit him in the fleshy part of his leg.

  • Milam was killed on the 5th of December 1835 by a sharpshooter hidden in a cypress tree; there is a monument to Colonel Milam in Milam Square.

  • With the arrival of the glassy-winged sharpshooter from the south east of the USA, the disease has become rampant.

  • He had been been shot by a French sharpshooter from the mizen topmast of the Redoutable.

  • Look out for Bret "Hitman" Hart's sharpshooter, Steve Austin's stone cold stunner, and Mankind's mandible claw.

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