snapshooter

English

Etymology

From snap +‎ shooter.

Noun

snapshooter (plural snapshooters)

1. (photography) A photographer; someone who takes snapshots.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     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. A camera designed specifically for taking snapshots
   • 2009 January 15, Rik Fairlie, “A Digital Camera for Those Who Like Instant Gratification”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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 […]

Related terms

• snapshot