snap-shooter
(ˈsnæpʃuːtə(r))
Also snapshooter.
[f. snap-.]
1. One who practises or is skilled in snap-shooting.
| 1887 Field 8 Jan. 41/1, I cannot but believe that our brilliant snap-shooters..are born, not made. |
2. One who takes snap-shot photographs; a camera suitable for this.
| 1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bulletin III. 200 It may become a ‘snap shooter’, by taking the cork out. 1896 J. Ashby-Sterry Tale Thames ii, [It] won't go down in these days of the universal kodak and perpetual snap-shooter. 1904 Car X. 240 (caption) Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.,..is reluctant to pose before a camera, but occasionally falls a victim to wily ‘snapshooters’. 1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon iv. 72, I had always taken a camera with me on my climbs, but had been little more than a holiday snapshooter. |