Snapshooter

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A photographer; someone who takes snapshots.

    "At home, on the street, Zuleika was the smiling target of all snap-shooters, and all the snap-shots were snapped up by the press and reproduced with annotations […]."

  2. 2
    A camera designed specifically for taking snapshots

    "The Polaroid film cameras may be dead, but you can still have instant photos with the company’s new PoGo Instant Digital Camera, a compact snapshooter with a built-in printer […]"

Example

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"At home, on the street, Zuleika was the smiling target of all snap-shooters, and all the snap-shots were snapped up by the press and reproduced with annotations […]."

Etymology

From snap + shooter.

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