Synonyms for shooter
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Noun
1. Gun — A firearm
Definitions
- n. 1
A firearm.
Related words
- Word family
- shootress
- Phrases
- straight shooter square shooter bean shooter shooter cup shooter glass shooter shirt
- Is a kind of
- war game
Forms
- Plural
- shooters → guns, gunslingers, blasters, torpedoes…
Example sentences
- gun My brother was threatened by someone waving a gun.
- gunslinger Tom looks great with his gunslinger beard and mustache.
- tau Medvedev signed a decree establishing the Shaytan-Tau Federal Nature Reserve.
- marksman Tom is a proficient marksman.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| shooter | rising | |
| gun | rising | |
| gunslinger | rising | |
| tau | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- gun1, tau
- 4 letters
- shot1
- 7 letters
- torpedo3, blaster2
- 8 letters
- marksman2
- 10 letters
- gunslinger3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (torpedo3 = 3 syllables).