plinker means A person who shoots at makeshift targets. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
From plink + -er.
noun
- A person who shoots at makeshift targets.“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.”
- 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.”
- One who makes a plinking sound.“The consumption rate of piano plinkers was terrific.”