different between sniper vs shotgun

English

Etymology

snipe +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sna?.p?/
• Rhymes: -a?p?(r)

Noun

sniper (plural snipers)

1. A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.

   (by extension) A sniper rifle

2. Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position.
3. One who shoots from a concealed position.
4. One who criticizes.
5. A hunter of snipe (the bird).
6. (ice hockey slang) A player who specializes in scoring goals.

   Alexander Ovechkin is often regarded as the greatest sniper of his generation.

7. A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond

Derived terms

• sniper rifle

Translations

See also

• marksman
• sharpshooter
• sniper's hide

Anagrams

• Perins, Piners, Prines, Spiner, persin, repins, respin, ripens, serpin

French

Etymology

From English sniper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snaj.pœ?/

Noun

sniper m (plural snipers)

1. sniper (person, weapon)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sniper f

1. plural indefinite of snipe

Portuguese

Etymology

From English sniper.

Noun

sniper m, f (plural snipers)

1. (military) sniper (person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position)

   Synonym: franco-atirador

English

Alternative forms

• shot-gun

Etymology

From shot +? gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t??n/
• Hyphenation: shot?gun

Noun

shotgun (countable and uncountable, plural shotguns)

1. (firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

   Synonym: scattergun
2. (slang) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.

   Synonym: death seat

3. (US, especially Southern US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.

   Synonyms: shotgun house, shotgun shack

4. (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
5. (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.

6. (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.

7. (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shotgun (third-person singular simple present shotguns, present participle shotgunning, simple past and past participle shotgunned)

1. (slang, smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
2. (transitive, informal) To verbally lay claim to (something)

3. (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
4. (US, slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
5. (US, slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
6. (computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.

Further reading

• shotgun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• shotgun house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gunshot, hognuts, hotguns, hutongs, noughts, unghost