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Shooter may refer to:

In films:
  • Shooter (film), a 2007 feature film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Mark Wahlberg
  • Shooters (film)
    Shooters (film)
    Shooters is a 2002 British crime drama film from directors Colin Teague and Glenn Durfort, and writers Andrew Howard, Louis Dempsey and Gary Young. It was filmed in London in 1999 and released theatrically in the UK on January 25, 2002...

    , a 2002 theatrical film
  • Shooters (2001 film)
    Shooters (2001 film)
    Shooters is a drama documentary film, directed by Dan Reed for Suspect Device Films. The Film is set in Liverpool and used local criminals as actors depicting the lives of local 'gangsters'...

    , a 2001 UK television drama documentary film, set in Liverpool
  • Shooter (short film)
    Shooter (short film)
    - Plot :An idealistic young photographer, eager to join the big leagues, spends the night on a stakeout with three experienced paparazzi....

    , a 2000 short film depicting four paparazzi on a stakeout


Sports and Pastimes:
  • A large marble (toy) used to hit other marbles
  • A person who takes part in the sport or act of shooting
    Shooting
    Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman...

  • Shooter (or goal shooter), a position in Netball
    Netball
    Netball is a sport in which two teams of seven players try to score points against each other by placing a ball through a raised goal. The sport is popular in Commonwealth countries and is predominantly played by women. Netball shares many similarities with basketball, having been derived from...

    .


In music:
  • "Shooter" (song)
    Shooter (song)
    "Shooter" is the third single from Lil Wayne's fifth studio album Tha Carter II, and is featured on Robin Thicke's second studio album The Evolution of Robin Thicke. The song was also featured on the Like Father, Like Son bonus disc. The song samples the electric piano from Gang Starr’s "Mass Appeal"...

    , a song by Lil Wayne and Robin Thicke
  • The Shooters
    The Shooters
    The Shooters was a five-piece country music band composed of Walt Aldridge Gary Baker , Barry Billings , Chalmers Davis , and Michael Dillon . They charted several times on the Billboard country charts between 1987 and 1989...

    , a 1980s country band


Other uses:
  • Shooter (beverage)
    Shooter (beverage)
    A shooter is a one- to four-ounce alcoholic beverage. It may consist of one type of alcohol or a cocktail of different alcohols, often mixed with other beverages. Shooters can be shaken, stirred, blended, layered, or simply poured. Shot glasses or sherry glasses are the usual drinkware from which...

    , mixed drink shooters and drink shots
  • Shooter game
    Shooter game
    Shooter games are a subgenre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. Because shooters make up the majority of action games, it is a fairly wide subgenre. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of...

    , a type of video game, often about the following subgenres:
    • First-person shooter
      First-person shooter
      First-person shooter is a video game genre which centers the gameplay around gun- and projectile weapon-based combat through the first person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits...

    • Shoot 'em up
      Shoot 'em up
      Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often a spacecraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what design elements...

  • A raw oyster
    Oyster
    The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified....

     on the halfshell
  • Slang for a firearm
    Firearm
    A firearm is a device which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. The firing is achieved by the gases produced through rapid, confined burning of a propellant. This process of rapid burning is technically known as deflagration...