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shoot out

n. (alternative spelling of shootout English)

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Shoot Out

Shoot Out is a 1971 western film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars Gregory Peck and Patricia Quinn. The film is adapted from Will James's 1930 novel, The Lone Cowboy. The film was produced, directed, and written by the team that delivered the Oscar-winning film True Grit.

This was the second-to-last of the 65 films directed by Hathaway.

Shoot Out (TV series)

Shoot Out is an Australian football (soccer) wrap-up television series, that airs on Fox Sports. It will host by Adam Peacock and Mark Bosnich.

Usage examples of "shoot out".

Here are found porcupines, which roll themselves up when the hunters set their dogs at them, and with great fury shoot out the quills or spines with which their skins are furnished, wounding both men and dogs.

There are other features of the gun which I'll explain later, particularly the power it has to shoot out luminous bars of light.

It climbs by means of curious fibres resembling roots, which shoot out from every part of the stem, and are furnished with small disks at the end, which adapt themselves to the roughness of the bark or wall against which the plant grows and to which it clings firmly.