Definitions for spotter

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spotter spot·ter

Spelling: [spot-er]

IPA: /ˈspɒt ər/

Spotter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in spotter (eoprstt).

Definitions for spotter

noun

1. a person employed to remove spots from clothing, especially at a dry-cleaning establishment.
2. (in civil defense) a civilian who watches for enemy airplanes.
3. Informal. a person employed to watch the activity and behavior of others, especially employees, as for evidence of dishonesty.
4. Military. an observer at a forward position who singles out targets for gunners.
5. a person or thing that spots.
6. (in small-arms practice firing) a small black disk attached to the target to make more prominent the places where a bullet has hit.
7. an assistant to a sportscaster who provides the names of the players chiefly involved in each play of a game, especially a football game.
8. Gymnastics, Tumbling. a person who is stationed in the most effective place to guard against an injury to a performer in the act of executing a maneuver.

Origin of spotter

First recorded in 1605-15; spot + -er¹

Examples for spotter

Alfabet was the only species of lizard on the pay roll—he was the West End spotter.

The Yankee spotter was in the treasure house of Ranch Robin.

And in the meantime, if things panned, Jimmy could be useful as a spotter.

But when Croly approached the desk and reported forty-five the spotter pounced on him.

The tired-looking man on the street-car may, in fact, be a professional "spotter."

You had a spotter working this up, I suppose: who is he, and where is he?

"Yes, you," said the spotter, scowling at the weak outlines of Croly's countenance.

Pauduveris had been employed by the United Railroads as a “spotter.”

You may be a spotter, for all I know, but I don't care a hang.

The spotter has to be the sort of man these ladies like, or else the Government will change his spots.