"shot caller" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "A deverbal of call the shots.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shot callers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shot caller (plural shot callers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        },
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        },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Samuel H. Pillsbury, How Criminal Law Works: A Conceptual and Practical Guide, page 346:",
          "text": "Antonio Ramirez,^([sic]) is a shot caller (a leader) of the A Street gang, a powerful criminal organization in the southern part of the state.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang."
      ],
      "id": "en-shot_caller-en-noun-Yngi-oF8",
      "links": [
        [
          "in charge",
          "in charge"
        ],
        [
          "street gang",
          "street gang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, page 198:",
          "text": "[…] the CDC's campaign to isolate other \"shot callers\" in its new generation of super maximum security prisons.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Carl Sifakis, The Encyclopedia of American Prisons, page 236:",
          "text": "A hotbed for fights and race riots has long been California's Pitchess Detention Center, a Los Angeles County prison. These battles are masterminded by tattooed gang leaders called shot callers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Casey Diaz, Mike Yorkey, The Shot Caller […] , Emanate Books, →ISBN, page 76:",
          "text": "People already knew me from the streets, so when the previous shot caller was transferred to a different state prison, a leadership vacuum was created. I was asked to fill it. One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prison inmate who holds informal authority over other inmates and who masterminds criminal activity."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "inmate",
          "inmate"
        ],
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ],
        [
          "mastermind",
          "mastermind"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, prison slang) A prison inmate who holds informal authority over other inmates and who masterminds criminal activity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "55 45",
      "word": "shot-caller"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "55 45",
      "word": "shotcaller"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shot caller"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A deverbal of call the shots.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shot callers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "shot caller (plural shot callers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Samuel H. Pillsbury, How Criminal Law Works: A Conceptual and Practical Guide, page 346:",
          "text": "Antonio Ramirez,^([sic]) is a shot caller (a leader) of the A Street gang, a powerful criminal organization in the southern part of the state.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "in charge",
          "in charge"
        ],
        [
          "street gang",
          "street gang"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English prison slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, page 198:",
          "text": "[…] the CDC's campaign to isolate other \"shot callers\" in its new generation of super maximum security prisons.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Carl Sifakis, The Encyclopedia of American Prisons, page 236:",
          "text": "A hotbed for fights and race riots has long been California's Pitchess Detention Center, a Los Angeles County prison. These battles are masterminded by tattooed gang leaders called shot callers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Casey Diaz, Mike Yorkey, The Shot Caller […] , Emanate Books, →ISBN, page 76:",
          "text": "People already knew me from the streets, so when the previous shot caller was transferred to a different state prison, a leadership vacuum was created. I was asked to fill it. One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prison inmate who holds informal authority over other inmates and who masterminds criminal activity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "inmate",
          "inmate"
        ],
        [
          "informal",
          "informal"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ],
        [
          "mastermind",
          "mastermind"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, prison slang) A prison inmate who holds informal authority over other inmates and who masterminds criminal activity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "shot-caller"
    },
    {
      "word": "shotcaller"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shot caller"
}