shotta
Jamaican Creole
/ˈʃata/
noun
Definitions
- An armed gangster ; a gunman.
Etymology
Derived from English shooter.
Origin
English
shooter
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- crapshooter English
- peashooter English
- shoot English
- shooter English
- shootress English
- sixshooter English
- snapshooter English
- trapshooter English
- troubleshooter English
- schoter Middle English