Meaning

3 senses

  1. A person trained to shoot precisely with a rifle; a marksman.

    Scharfschütze, Scharfschützin

    сна́йперsnájper, ме́ткий стрело́кmétkij strelók

  2. A proconiine (type of leafhopper).

  3. A submission hold characterized by one wrestler twisting the other's legs upwards while sitting on their back.

More definitions
  • a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters
  • someone skilled in shooting
  • an athlete noted for accurate aim

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Tom won the sharpshooter medal.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
marksman:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
marksman:

Origin

sharp + shooter, a calque of German Scharfschütze.

sharp + shooter, a calque of German Scharfschütze.

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Forms

plural: sharpshooters
Singularsharpshooter
Pluralsharpshooters

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedsharpshoot
Derivedorange sharpshooter

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sharpensharpenersharplyB2sharpnessshatterB2

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