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shoot-out
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Word definitions for shoot-out in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1953; expression shoot it out is from 1912; see shoot (v.) + out (adv.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of shootout English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES penalty shoot-out COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN penalty ▪ At the penalty shoot-out the same dogged evenness was maintained - it went to sudden death. ▪ In the intermediate section, the Giants, a team from Blurton Ladsandads ...
Usage examples of shoot-out.
Lo Manto did not, as a rule, go into a situation anticipating a shoot-out.
SHOOT-OUT 1400 HOUR, WEDNESDAY WHILE NANCY JAAX was working on the monkeys, C.
When I see the way Feifer checks her out, I know the Montauk townies still have a chance to win this shoot-out by the sea.
Rydell heard himself say, slapping a holstered Glock onto his uniform and grabbing his chunker, which aside from its rate of fire was probably the best thing for a shoot-out in a nursery full of kids.
Ogden, who had taken two bullets in the shoot-out, had been airlifted by chopper to the Hennepin County Medical Center, where he was listed as stable after three hours of surgery.
It seemed this was going to be a neck-and-neck race to see who got to the Changs first, he or the police, and if it came to a shoot-out he wanted good firepower.
The story behind this shoot-out, and other incidents in the life of Elfego Baca, would make him a living legend in the Southwest.
The story about the barbershop shoot-out had made it above the fold.
One would favour car bombs, another would limit attacks only to military and police targets, or direct operations towards spectaculars such as big fires, major shoot-outs and prison escapes.
Nobody else from the Feliciana shoot-out has been called, that I can find out.
George had come here, to live full-time in this luxurious holiday home of his, only because his wife had been murdered in a shoot-out in East Germany.
Then they'd sailed straight into Marsh and zapped four heavy cruisers, and then they'd captured one of the most wanted mass murderers in Silesian history in a personal shoot-out with the Old Lady, blown a thousand more straight to hell, and saved an entire planet from nuclear devastation.
True, family legend claimed that Sid Hatfield, the sheriff who led the coal miners in their shoot-out with the company goons at Matewan, had been a distant relative.
Figuring it was the newshounds who'd been pestering me since the shoot-out, I fumbled the receiver onto the nightstand and dived back to slumberland.
Ninhursag and Lawrence Jefferson had managed to pick off a few Sword of God cells, a few score terrorists had been killed in shoot-outs with security forces when they’.