Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK black) a street-level drug dealer.

2003		Dizzee Rascal in Vice Mag. at Hyperdub.com 🌐 Real shotters, proper drugs dealers who you can’t really see, go about ninja, and then a couple of idiot ones who are just doing it for the hype. All the real shotters I know don’t like what they have to do, they know have to pretend like it’s glamorous, but there’s the idiot ones who’re just there to be in the hype to say ‘yeah I’m a shotter’ and not really understand what it’s about, seeing some stuff they’re not ready for and they’re the ones who get moved to, getme? [...] Like I said before the shotters, who just shot cos they want to shot.
2008		A. Wheatle Dirty South 2: The Portuguese shotta sell the best hash in London.
2011		G. Knight Hood Rat 109: So he’s making £4,000 profit, paying £500 a week to one of his shotters.
2015		www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads Grime Terminology Guide 🌐 Shotter - Drug Dealer.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 21: A shotter selling crack and heroin around the ends .