marksman

marksman

n. a serious college student who works hard to get good marks (grades). Bill kept saying that Todd was a geek and a marksman, until Todd flunked algebra.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • fenced
  • front off about something
  • a bad penny
  • bad penny
  • penny
  • bummed (out)
  • get a licking
  • dip
  • bummed
  • front off
References in periodicals archive
The Master Marksman would have direct contact with the 5-3-the most important training officer in the battalion.
Master Marksmen in the light infantry. (Training Notes)
Yesterday former police marksman Mark Melvin told of the moment he shot dead Mark Scott.
Inquest told of shooting aftermath; PC gave first aid to dying man
He said it would take a skilled marksman to kill a moving sheep from 30m.
MISTAKES OF SHEEP CULL MARKSMAN; Novice 'courted disaster' jury told
Scott Emmerson was an early marksman for Tow Law Town at Chester-le-Street, who, after equalising through Ian Davison in the 85th minute, almost snatched victory as Elliott Milburn's header hit the crossbar.
Beaten Terriers lose the lead
Faced with an armed threat the police marksman does what he is trained to do.
Guns must top agenda
The 37-year-old Letchworth-born marksman, who is competing in his fifth Games, now has 12 Commonwealth medals to his name.
Medals glory
YOUR letter regarding fox hunting said that because sheep could not be killed efficiently by a so-called marksman then neither could foxes.
[1] Dear Gerrie: Foxed by the truth
But if a marksman cannot kill sheep cleanly from 40 feet away, they will have little chance of knocking off a wild, elusive animal half the size of a sheep, at a brief and sudden sighting.
[1] Dear Gerrie: Reader's letter
A marksman from the North's Department of Agriculture used a .22 rifle with laser sighting to shoot the suspect animals.
Fury at 'cruel' cull of suspect livestock; BAD NEWS
THIS is the moment a police marksman took on an escaped bull - and lost.
Marksman bulldozed
But an off-duty marksman called to the scene in Nottingham did not have a powerful enough gun to kill it with a single bullet and had to fire a volley of shots.
'Bloodbath' as cop kills runaway horse
A POLICE marksman shot a cow dead after it escaped from a showground and rampaged along a busy public road.
BERSERK COW SHOT BY COPS
A POLICE marksman shot a man dead yesterday after he fired at officers during a two-hour siege at a house.
Police kill gunman in siege
ROBBIE KEANE has shared his striking secrets with Seani Maguire in the hope he too can become a lethal marksman for Ireland.
HE'S KEANE TO PLEASE
Carranza said the gunman who killed Halili is called a marksman or a person skilled at using long firearms such as a rifle.
Marksman not a sniper killed Mayor Halili, police officer says