pot-shootern.
/ˈpɒtˌʃuːtə/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌʃudər/ A person who takes pot-shots. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > by type of shooting
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1849 W. T. Power Sketches in N.Z. 72 There are some pot-shooters, who are brutes enough to kill the gaily coloured little parrot, the ‘Kaka-riki’.
1898 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 28 Oct. The great army of pot shooters who hunt for the market regardless of every local law and sportsmanlike consideration.
1921 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three xiv. 166 I'm leavin' town. I ain't got a chance among buildin's again' pot-shooters.
1985 Time (Nexis) 26 Aug. 16 He has a Senate race to run in 1986 and a Senate to lead all the time, which makes him a target for every political pot-shooter around.
2001 Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader (Nexis) 23 Nov. 10 b Chief Hayes let me accompany his pigeon potshooters. He had the good sense, however, to keep a shotgun out of my hands.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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