sharpshooter

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sharpshooter

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sharpshooter (insect)

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Etymology

sharp + shooter, a calque of German Scharfschütze.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sharpshooter (plural sharpshooters)

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

   Coordinate terms: rifleman, sniper

2. A proconiine (type of leafhopper).
3. (professional wrestling) A submission hold characterized by one wrestler twisting the other's legs upwards while sitting on their back.

Derived terms

• glassy-winged sharpshooter
• orange sharpshooter
• Texas sharpshooter fallacy

Translations

marksman

Afrikaans: skerpskutter Bashkir: снайпер (snayper), мәргән (mərgən) Bulgarian: сна́йпер m (snájper) Chinese: Mandarin: 神槍手 / 神枪手 (zh) (shénqiāngshǒu), 狙擊兵 / 狙击兵 (zh) (jūjībīng), 射手 (zh) (shèshǒu) Danish: skarpskytte c, finskytte c (army) Dutch: scherpschutter (nl) m Finnish: tarkka-ampuja (fi) French: tireur d'élite (fr) m German: Scharfschütze (de) m, Scharfschützin (de) f Greek: άριστος σκοπευτής (áristos skopeftís), επιδέξιος σκοπευτής (epidéxios skopeftís) Hebrew: צַלָף (he) (tsalaf) Hungarian: mesterlövész (hu) Indonesian: penembak jitu (id) Italian: tiratore scelto m, tiratrice scelta f Mari: Eastern Mari: вик лӱйышӧ (vik lüjyšö) Polish: strzelec wyborowy m Portuguese: atirador de elite m Russian: сна́йпер (ru) m (snájper), ме́ткий стрело́к m (métkij strelók) Spanish: francotirador (es) m Swedish: skarpskytt (sv) c Thai: นักแม่นปืน (nák-mɛ̂n-bpʉʉn) Turkish: atıcı (tr), nişancı (tr) Vietnamese: xạ thủ (vi), nhà thiện xạ