shootist
nounEtymology From shoot + -ist.
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US, Archaic A person who is an expert user of firearms, especially a sharpshooter or a gunslinger in the Old West.
- Not being a "shootist," I cannot lay the bird before you.1895, O. Widmann, “An Hour with Baird's and Leconte's Sparrows near St. Louis, Missouri”, in The Auk, volume 12, number 3, page 94:
- Such terminations in -ist were very common at one time; my collection includes swimmist, sparrist, ballist, walkist, shootist, saloonist, and several others.1947, Charles J. Lovell, “The Background of Mark Twain's Vocabulary”, in American Speech, volume 22, number 2, page 94: