单词 | sharpshooter |
释义 | sharpshootern. 1. a. A marksman of accurate aim; spec. in naval and military use, a member of a division engaged in skirmishing and outpost work. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > others artificera1553 man-catcher1649 stormer1655 sallier1685 pressmana1694 camp colour-man1753 sharpshooter1802 train soldier1833 escalader1849 adviser1854 outflanker1854 observer1870 spiker1884 mopper-up1917 slushy1919 wire-cutter1922 televisionary1925 flash-spotter1930 spotter1931 parashooter1940 parashot1940 bunker buster1944 sound-ranger1978 yomper1982 technical1992 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > by type of shooting hotshot1593 tirailleur1796 sharpshooter1802 sniper1824 pot-shooter1849 fusillader1878 pot-shotter1904 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Tirolians, a body of sharp shooters in the Austrian service. 1803 W. Scott Let. 27 Aug. (1932) I. 196 Armies of Reserve, and Militia, and Pikemen, and Sharpshooters, who are to descend from Ettrick Forest to the confusion of all invaders. 1805 H. Blackwood in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 224 Lord Nelson was wounded by a French Sharpshooter. 1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1835) IV. 331 On the 11th the enemy tried their usual manœuvres with their sharpshooters in the woods. 1897 Cent. Mag. Jan. 352 [He] had been struck by a sharp-shooter and killed. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 695 Hundreds of black-letter sharp-shooters spring up. 1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory I. p. x A fusillade of questions from a class of sharp~shooters. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 26 May 1/3 They were set apart as a shining target upon which all political sharpshooters practiced. 1960 20th Cent. May 447 Sociology is not at present and is not likely to become in the near future a subject for intellectual sharpshooters. c. U.S. Military. A rifleman of a particular grade; spec. one who has attained the level of proficiency between that of marksman and expert. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > rifleman > of specific grade sharpshooter1889 1889 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. 13/2 Until within a comparatively recent period all officers and members of organizations armed with the Remington rifle scoring 25 points or better at 200 and 500 yards, 6 shots at each distance..were accounted ‘marksmen’... Later on a distinction was made in respect of men making 42 points or better, by classing them as ‘sharpshooters’. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 551 Sharpshooter,..in small~arms firing, a grade of rifleman just below that of expert rifleman. 1974 ‘M. Allen’ Super Tour i. 6 The entrance was guarded..by the chief gatekeeper or one of his three sons, all armed with rifles and all rating as sharpshooters when they had done their military service. 1977 Time 22 Aug. 34/3 He flunked his first rifle-shooting test but eventually qualified as an infantry sharpshooter (the middle ranking between marksman and expert) with the M-16 rifle. 2. Transferred senses. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball full toss1826 long hop1830 twister1832 bail ball1833 bailer1833 grubber1837 slow ball1838 wide1838 ground ball1839 shooter1843 slower ball1846 twiddler1847 creeper1848 lob1851 sneak1851 sneaker1851 slow1854 bumper1855 teaser1856 daisy-cutter1857 popper1857 yorker1861 sharpshooter1863 headball1866 screwball1866 underhand1866 skimmerc1868 grub1870 ramrod1870 raymonder1870 round-armer1871 grass cutter1876 short pitch1877 leg break1878 lob ball1880 off-break1883 donkey-drop1888 tice1888 fast break1889 leg-breaker1892 kicker1894 spinner1895 wrong 'un1897 googly1903 fizzer1904 dolly1906 short ball1911 wrong 'un1911 bosie1912 bouncer1913 flyer1913 percher1913 finger-spinner1920 inswinger1920 outswinger1920 swinger1920 off-spinner1924 away swinger1925 Chinaman1929 overspinner1930 tweaker1938 riser1944 leg-cutter1949 seamer1952 leggy1954 off-cutter1955 squatter1955 flipper1959 lifter1959 cutter1960 beamer1961 loosener1962 doosra1999 1863 Boy's Own Vol. Christmas 218 Among the best men with sharpshooters were Wenman, among the old players, Carpenter and Daft, and last, not least, Mr. E. Grace. b. Sport. A player whose aim is particularly accurate. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players server1585 free agent1649 benchwarmer1662 puncher1681 sticker1779 hard hitter1790 hitter1813 go-devil1835 beneficiaire1841 colt1846 heavyweight1857 stayer1862 left-hander1864 attack1869 cap1879 international1882 roadman1886 big leaguer1887 homester1887 sand lotter1887 badger1890 internationalist1892 repeater1893 anchorman1895 grandstander1896 stylist1897 homebrew1903 letterman1905 toss-loser1906 fouler1908 rookie1908 mudder1912 sharpshooter1912 pro-amateur1919 receiver1919 southpaw1925 freestyler1927 hotshot1927 active1931 all-timer1936 iceman1936 wild card1940 scrambler1954 rounder1955 franchise1957 call-up1960 trialist1960 non-import1964 sandbagger1965 rebel1982 wide-body1986 1912 N.Y. Tribune 21 Sept. 12/1 Devore..was the principal sharpshooter of the second encounter, as he answered for all four runs. 1974 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 27 Feb. 3- b/1 Virginia Military..builds its offense around freshman sharpshooter John Krovic. c. U.S. colloquial. = sharp adj. 8b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority masterc1225 historian?a1439 authentic1613 scientiate1647 supernaturalist1659 authority1665 connoisseur1732 pundit1816 expert1825 specialist1839 past master1840 sharp1840 professional1846 beggar1859 specializer1868 passed master1882 buff1903 man1921 sharpshooter1942 sharpie1949 watcher1966 meister1975 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Mar. 10/5 The sharpshooters have been saying that Market Wise should romp in. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Sept. 17/5 The real romance of the race track..is the betting crowd. First you get the experts or the sharp~shooters. 3. One of several leafhoppers of the family Cicadellidæ, feeding on grasses, grapevines, and other plants. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadellidae or Jassidae > member of leafhopper1838 rose-hopper1852 rose leafhopper1860 jassid1895 sharpshooter1902 1902 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1901 377 Early cotton..avoids to a great extent damage to the plant by the boll~worm, cotton worm, and sharp-shooter. 1959 Washington Post 23 July a20/2 Priesendorfer identified them as leafhoppers, commonly called sharpshooters. Derivatives ˈsharpshooting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > type of firing point and blank1590 false fire1602 potting1613 point-blank1614 running fire1629 pounding1633 bulleting1635 platooning1706 sharp-shot1725 street firing1727 ricochet1740 fire curtain1744 plunging fire1747 reverse fire1758 sniping1773 enfilade1796 rapid fire1800 line-firing1802 concentric1804 sharpshooting1806 rake1810 sniping fire1821 cross-firing1837 file-firing1837 curved fire1854 night firing1856 file-fire1857 volley-firing1859 cross-fire1860 joy-firing1864 snap-shooting1872 stringing1873 pot-shooting1874 indirect fire1879 sweeping1907 rapid1913 curtain of fire1916 ripple1939 ripple-firing1940 ripple fire1961 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [adjective] > type of firing popping1753 point-blank1765 sharpshooting1806 high-angle1856 straight-shooting1901 pot-shotting1943 ripple-fired1954 society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [adjective] > by ability strongOE scrub1867 all-star1889 stiff1890 first string1892 plus1906 match-winning1908 all-time1910 seeded1922 front line1939 sharpshooting1948 world-class1950 uncapped1955 storming1961 society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > actions exchange1604 measuring cast1647 winner1811 glovework1822 piledriver1858 cockshot1861 legwork1868 footwork1871 winning stroke1884 teamwork1885 benching1904 three-sixty1927 wrong-footing1928 power play1932 major1951 sharpshooting1976 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 311 The system of sharp-shooting practised by the enemy. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vi Mrs. S. attacked the punch with some sharp-shooting, and fierce charges of vulgarity. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xliv. 510 After some little sharp-shooting on both sides, Mr. Pecksniff became grave. 1863 in Advance (Chicago) (1892) 28 Jan. On Tuesday he..kept his men busy sharp~shooting across the river. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xiii. 219 I am too old a campaigner to take much harm by woman's sharpshooting, at fifteen score yards off. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 215/1 He was out sharp-shooting in the Crimea. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 30 Dec. 3/2 Artillery would be put out of action by sharp-shooting riflemen. 1948 Sporting Mirror 19 Nov. 5/1 First Division clubs are queuing up to bid for Vic Lambden, Bristol Rovers' sharpshooting centre forward. 1976 Norwich Mercury 10 Dec. It was the same Carrow player who had scored the first goal, and he was certainly giving Old Boys a lesson in sharpshooting. 1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xvi. 172 The client was a sharpshooting Wasp Wall Street broker named Buddy Stove. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1802 |
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