"plinker" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994, Diana Kappel-Smith, Desert Time: A Journey Through the American Southwest, page 98",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1991, Missouri Conservationist, volume 52",
          "text": "Plinkers, also called gallery shooters, don't need a formal shooting range for their sport. They shoot at things that respond. Many plinkers pick out a can or piece of charcoal to set on a spot with a safe background, then try to knock it down […]",
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        "A person who shoots at makeshift targets."
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          "ref": "1969, Field & Stream, volume 74, number 5, page 88",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "text": "The consumption rate of piano plinkers was terrific.",
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        "One who makes a plinking sound."
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