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Definition of Shootists
1. shootist [n] - See also: shootist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shootists
Literary usage of Shootists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Reminiscences by Thomas Haydon (1898)
"... to enter the lists against English and foreign shootists being Mr Donald
Mackintosh,* whose performances at the English Gun Club, Monte Carlo, Brussels, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"All stare steadily at the invaders, but there occurs no terror-stricken stampede,
such as in these days of modern rifles and swarming shootists is the usual ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"CONFOUND those shootists from the Land o' Cakes ! They 'ye picked out all the
plums ; our Cake is dough. Descending from the North, they sack their " takes ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"From November till April shootists are kept out by the deep snows, which make
access to the valley difficult. When the season opens in spring a detachment ..."
5. First Fam'lies of the Sierras by Joaquin Miller (1876)
"Experienced shootists, old hands at mortal combat with their kind, glanced from
man to man, measured every motion, every look, with all the intense ..."
6. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"Whence these cowboys, whence these riders, Whence these Red Shirts and these
shootists, With their tomahawks and war-paint, With their mustangs and buck ..."
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