(n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They think they're hot shit, but they're kind of fuck-ups," says Johnson, who points to the Loopers' choice of weapon – chunky buck-spitters known as Blunderbusses – as evidence of their true status.
Spotter
Definition:
(n.) One who spots.
Example Sentences:
(1) It consists of a clinical assessment made by a surgical tutor over a period of six weeks throughout a student's surgical term, a visual, clinically orientated written examination a "spotter-type" practical examination and a viva-voce examination.
(2) A plane-spotter, Anthony Castorani, told CNN he heard a "pop" as the jet landed, followed by a brief fireball at which point the aircraft began to break up and spin.
(3) These were (i) the introduction of "spotters" with experience in sports medicine to identify and advise exhausted runners before they collapse; (ii) staffing the run's medical centre with medical and nursing specialists in intensive care; (iii) improved management of heat exhaustion; and (iv) conducting education seminars after the run to make recommendations for improving subsequent events.
(4) It seems highly probable that both Costellos are agents of the RIS, Costello’s role may well be that of a talent spotter,” notes the MI5 file.
(5) Until now, we have been limited to lists of suspicious aircraft and networks of flight routes pieced together painstakingly using information from everyone from plane spotters to the European parliament.
(6) Hare accused the trend spotters of the early 21st century of lining up eagerly to pretend the controversy which raged around Look Back In Anger was "some kind of ghastly mistake".
(7) "We have been impressed by the efforts made to prevent football hooliganism in foreign countries by sending 'spotters' to help pick out those at risk of committing criminal acts and believe similar practical help would be beneficial in the fight against terrorism," the MPs say.
(8) They have been acting as spotters to identify military targets for air strikes and cruise missiles.
(9) Straw has been Blackburn's MP for 33 years; he replaced Barbara Castle, for whom he had worked as a special adviser (something of a talent-spotter, Castle once said that she had employed Straw for his "guile and low cunning").
(10) She was a great spotter of talent, and contributors would often come into the office for a chat; Mario Testino shot early fashion for the fashion editor Liz Connell, Craig Brown became music critic and Deborah Moggach was a regular contributor.
(11) Follow the children's quiz trail around the house and garden, using tracker packs with secret messages and spotter sheets.
(12) Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘Day-trippers from east London perform Maghrib, the Islamic evening prayer on the promenade at Southend.’ The title of the series, Thames Log , came from the ship spotters at Tilbury, who “sit all day logging the continual stream of vessels passing through”.
(13) Others are pros on the lower levels hoping to be picked up by the UFC’s talent spotters.
(14) The best known is the military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who is accused of being an artillery spotter for the Ukrainian forces and involved in the deaths of two Russian journalists .
(15) The spotter was a man called Peter Beard , a well-connected photographer and Africophile.
(16) Spotter's ratings: ★★★★★ I don't believe it!
(17) The town of Ottery St Mary enjoyed something of a tourist boom as beaver spotters headed to Devon to try to spot the creatures and many naturalists argued that the beavers were good news for biodiversity and could ease flooding problems because their dams slow the rate water moves down rivers, such as the Otter.
(18) 4 Dec, Helmand W Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines, shoot and wound man as possible "spotter" .
(19) ZSL’s spotters take advantage of the seals’ moulting season in August, when they shuffle up sandbanks to shed their coat and grow a new one, making double-counting less likely.
(20) • The routine use of forward intellience teams (FITs) who film, photograph and follow protesters, and use "spotter cards" to identify activists and store their information on databases raises fundamental privacy issues and should be reviewed.