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n. (plural of shoot-out English)
Usage examples of "shoot-outs".
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.
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'd struck at guarded sites, and they'd identified exactly seven spies in their military.
This is linked to the shoot-outs reported out at Mather Field earlier today.
I expected the usual crap about dum-dums and shoot-outs and cooling guys with a rod, but Magoo talked more like a candidate for the Olympic pistol team.
Lonny was a veteran of more wars, shoot-outs, and brawls than the two of them combined.