Shooter
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Shooter may refer to:

Films
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shooters (2002 film), a 2002 theatrical film
  • Shooter (film), a 2007 feature film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Mark Wahlberg


Sports and pastimes
  • 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 game
    Shooter game
    Shooter games are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon". A common...

    , a genre of video game. Subgenres of it are:
    • 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 in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...

    • First-person shooter
      First-person shooter
      First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through 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 with other...

    • Third-person shooter
      Third-person shooter
      Third-person shooter is a genre of 3D action games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.-Definition:...

  • Shooter (or goal shooter), a position in netball
    Netball
    Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...

  • A large marble (toy)
    Marble (toy)
    A marble is a small spherical toy usually made from glass, clay, steel, or agate. These balls vary in size. Most commonly, they are about ½ inch in diameter, but they may range from less than ¼ inch to over 3 inches , while some art glass marbles fordisplay purposes are over 12 inches ...

     used to hit other marbles
  • A delivery in cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

     that rolls after the ball hits the ground


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 founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It consisted of Walt Aldridge Gary Baker , Barry Billings , Chalmers Davis , and Michael Dillon . They charted several times on the Billboard country charts between 1986 and 1989...

    , a 1980s country band
  • Shooter Jennings
    Shooter Jennings
    Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings is an American singer-songwriter active in the country music and Southern rock genres as well as making his first foray into psychedelic rock in 2009...

    , country music singer


Other uses
  • Shooter (mixed drink), a mixed alcoholic drink that is served in a shot glass
    Shot glass
    A shot glass is a small glass designed to hold or measure spirits or liquor, which is either drunk straight from the glass or poured into a mixed drink....


  • 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 weapon that launches one, or many, projectile at high velocity through confined burning of a propellant. This subsonic burning process is technically known as deflagration, as opposed to supersonic combustion known as a detonation. In older firearms, the propellant was typically...

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