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单词 sharpshooter
释义

sharpshootern.

/ˈʃɑːpʃuːtə/
Etymology: < sharp adj. + shooter n. (So German scharfschütz(e, scharfer schütze.)
1.
a. A marksman of accurate aim; spec. in naval and military use, a member of a division engaged in skirmishing and outpost work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
a. Cricket. = shooter n. 8. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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