shot putter
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- noun
- /ʃɑt ˈpʌtər/
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lanzador de peso
- During the event, the best shot putters from around the country competed for the title.
- shot putter and high jumper
Examples
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In track, coached by the famous Amos Alonzo Stagg until spring football practice started, Hubble was a good but not outstanding shot putter and high jumper.
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Randy Barnes is a talented shot putter who broke several records during his career.
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When I was in school, my roommate was a shot putter.
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- Dibs on the shot-putter.
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In this sense, a shot putter can never generate maximal strength and speed due to a short travel time.
Blog text (5) -
Ostapchuk has been among the elite female shot putters for over a decade.
Blog text (1) -
Several football players, high jumpers, sprinters, and shot putters went on board three grain ships bound for Buffalo.
Academic text (1994) -
Sprinters win medals by crossing the finish line first; shot putters win by heaving the shot the longest distance, etc.
Academic text (1991) -
He was a high jumper, broad jumper, shot putter, discus thrower, and ran on the relay team.
Academic text (1990) -
Indeed, there was something counterproductive about the Soviet sports image, with its hideously muscular infant gymnasts, its vast weight lifters, and female shot-putters.
Academic text (1994)
Surface Forms
Morphology
shot + putter
The compound is compositionally transparent: 'putter' is an agentive form meaning 'one who puts/throws' and 'shot' names the heavy ball used in the event, so 'shot putter' straightforwardly means 'a person who throws the shot'. This follows regular English compounding and the productive -er agentive pattern (and similar constructions exist in many languages), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Shot putter comes from the event shot put. In that event the shot is a heavy metal ball and put is an old word for 'to push' or 'throw', so a shot putter is someone who pushes or throws that heavy ball in competition.