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plinker en · NOUN

Etymology

From plink + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who shoots at makeshift targets.
   • Plinkers, also called gallery shooters, don't need a formal shooting range for their sport. They shoot at things that respond. Many plinkers pick out a can or piece of charcoal to set on a spot with a safe background, then try to knock it down […] 1991, Missouri Conservationist, volume 52:
   • Game wardens anywhere know about "plinkers" — those gun-toting folks, mostly urban, young, and male, who will shoot at anything that moves. In the deserts, urban centers are growing. Plinkers are legion. 1994, Diana Kappel-Smith, Desert Time: A Journey Through the American Southwest, page 98:
2. A firearm used to shoot at makeshift targets.
   • […] the plinking gun should be more of a target arm than a defense or hunting gun, and ideally it should be one stage more sophisticated than the basic $35 to $45 revolver which many think of as a plinker. 1969, Field & Stream, volume 74, number 5, page 88:
3. One who makes a plinking sound.
   • The consumption rate of piano plinkers was terrific. 1958, The MATS Flyer, volume 5, page 10:

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