shoot-out

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ˈshoot-out noun [countableC]

FIGHTa fight using guns 开枪格斗，枪战

a shoot-out with police

和警察的枪战

Examples from the Corpus

shoot-out• And what's it like knowing your dear daddy died in a shoot-out?• The young gunman was on a truck fleeing the scene of a shoot-out with marines in Mogadishu.• At the penalty shoot-out the same dogged evenness was maintained - it went to sudden death.• Hence the importance of today's shoot-out to both clubs.• In fact it figures the three companies will be the only survivors of the coming silicon shoot-out.• They discover that the marker commemorating the shoot-out was destroyed by an earthquake in 1983.• In the shoot-out one Klansman was killed, and five others were seriously wounded.

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