deadeye

adj

1. (not-comparable)Very accurate in shooting or throwing.

   “Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.”

   “Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.”

   “The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.”

2. (not-comparable)Cold; unfriendly.

   “The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.”

   “Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare […]”

noun

1. A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.
2. A very accurate marksman.

   “He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye.”

3. (uncommon)A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.

   “He examined the cash balance daily, boasted he could pay off all debts in two hours, had a deadeye for fake figures in scanning a ledger, and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.”

   “Thirty-four years later, she was a tough CEO who went after Jimmy's detractors with a deadeye for the jugular.”

   “Manny's memory had always been an arch-phenomenon of mimcry ^([sic]); he was a deadeye for all the destructive details.”