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gunfight

[ guhn-fahyt ]

noun

  1. a battle between two or more people or groups armed with guns, gun, especially a confrontation between two gunfighters using revolvers in the frontier days of the American West.


gunfight

/ ˈɡʌnˌfaɪt /

noun

  1. a fight between persons using firearms
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈgunˌfighting, noun
  • ˈgunˌfighter, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gunfight1

First recorded in 1650–60; gun 1 + fight
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Example Sentences

The gun play is more “Fallout” than “Call of Duty,” which is fine in AI gunfights but might yield some frustration for first-person shooter fans going head-to-head against a human-controlled Julianna.

He’d won the Police Combat Cross, the department’s second-highest honor, for his role in a gunfight in the Bronx.

This is a gunfight Even so, starting early, water, sunblock, and good intentions won’t cut it.

Sometimes these incidents end with a view from behind the character’s eyeballs, or like this player who ended up in a gunfight trying to shoot while seeing the inside of their mouth.

When the gunfight ended, the bodies were handed over to the families.

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This year, you stop bringing a pleasant, reasonable knife to a gunfight.

Murray added: “Schneiderman is bringing a knife to a gunfight.”

This weekend I posted a book club entry about Adam Winkler's important history of US gun law, Gunfight.

“Many of those Libyans died in the gunfight fighting off the attackers,” one of the officials said.

There was no 40-minute gunfight, he writes, and the SEALs were not fired at as they approached the compound.

Natural target in a gunfight, and in a rough-and-tumble it gets them all tangled up.

The gunfight destroyed his faith in his ability to do it—or most of it, anyway.

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