shooter

noun/ʃuːtər/

Frequency rank: #3,973 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a person who fires a gun or other weapon.

Illustration for the English word “shooter”

Example sentence

The police quickly identified the shooter and secured the area.

Synonyms & related words

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