trapshooter

Definition of trapshooternext

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Recent Examples of trapshooter Nor would a trapshooter toe the line with eye and ear protection tucked in their vest. Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2020 Last year’s inductees were Olympic medal-winning trapshooter Corey Cogdell, Major League Baseball pitcher Chad Bentz, the Alaska Run for Women and Kodiak’s 2001 state basketball championship team. Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2019 Gene was a gunsmith, a lifetime member of the NRA, and a champion trapshooter. orlandosentinel.com, 27 Oct. 2019 Such bunkers are rare in the United States, said Curtis Lynn, an Anchorage trapshooter whose daughter, Abbigail, is teammates with Davey on the Birchwood Bears youth team. Beth Bragg, Alaska Dispatch News, 26 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trapshooter
Noun
  • Illinois is led by freshman guard Keaton Wagler, a 3-point marksman.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Replacing your leading scorer, who doubles as the conference’s top marksman from long range, is a tall order.
    Daily News, Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Five players average at least 10 points per game for Illinois, with Andrej Stojakovic — son of former NBA sharpshooter Peja Stojakovic — among them.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the individuals Buckley suggests are Arizona Cardinals' Koa Peat and UConn sharpshooter Braylon Mullins as potentially available at the spot.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That's when authorities said the homeowner allegedly pointed a gun at the worker, sending him running for his life.
    Erika Stanish, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The play, like the movie, is loosely based on a robbery that took place in 1972, on a boiling-hot August day, when an eccentric, deep-in-debt Vietnam veteran named John Wojtowicz entered a Chase bank in Brooklyn with a gun and two accomplices, hoping for a quick score.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Robert Edwin Kline was a 22-year-old gunner's mate second class when he was killed on the Arizona.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Netherlands Ministry of Defense Last year, Norway's Princess Ingrid Alexandria finished 15-months of service as a gunner in an engineering battalion.
    Frank Andrews, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In the same way Leger-Walker went from a three-point sniper to a point guard or Rice went from a distributor to a shooter and Jaquez from a hoop driver to a three-level scorer, Betts transformed from a post-up only scorer to the conductor of the Bruins’ office in the middle of the floor.
    Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Executioner was a pulpy book series that told the muscular and bullet-filled adventures of Mack Bolan, a sniper turned one man army fighting against the Mafia, the KGB, terrorists and cyber-criminals, or whoever were the bad guys of his latest book’s era.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026

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“Trapshooter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trapshooter. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.

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