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Definition of Shootist
1. Noun. (chiefly US archaic) A person who is an expert user of firearms, especially a hunter or a gunfighter in the Old West. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shootist
1. a skilled marksman [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shootist
Literary usage of Shootist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"I do so by remembering that he had neither skill nor keenness as a shootist; that
very possibly he was too slow with his gun to have a shot; and that it is ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1895)
"Not being a ' shootist," I cannot lay the bird before you. I have to beg you to
accompany me into the field to the scene of the rencounter. ..."
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