gunfight
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈɡʌnˌfaɪt/
:
tiroteo
- Usually, the gunfights last only a few minutes, but this one lasted eight hours, during which we took three casualties.
Like, bro, first squad just got in a gunfight inside a room.
- Like, bro, first squad just got in a gunfight inside a room.
- I mean, I, I'm literally in a gunfight in Afghanistan.
- Hate, you know, it makes you brave in a close quarters gunfight.
- It's like if you get paid by the bullet, you're going to start a lot of gunfights, right?
- Frictions generally end up in firefights and gunfights.
- And we've sort of skirted around this topic after all the wartime stuff and the gunfights and people dying and the doorbells.
- July in Iraq and I had to run to this gunfight because we were taking fire.
- So I kind of realized, dude, you're still in, you're in Iraq, you're in this gunfight and and you're super fucked up.
- I don't see how you're going to protect yourself with it because you, you may be bringing a knife to a gunfight anyway.
- And DJ talked about this gunfight when he was here.
- And it wound its way not to a gunfight or to a car chase or to a big fight.
- Courage in a gunfight and close quarters gunfight and war, conflict, you have to have courage.
- And then they lean over and he's like playing, you know, like a gunfight.
Examples
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The sounds of a gunfight and a blanket of smoke sweep into the cabin.
Fiction book (1997) -
July in Iraq and I had to run to this gunfight because we were taking fire.
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And in a gunfight, what just happened to the big man?
Fiction book (2001) -
Were you in a gunfight in Virginia last night?
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In the first place, Luke would kill the Kid in a gunfight.
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Who are ya, bringing a knife to a gunfight?
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Someone opens up on him, and the gunfight's on.
Fiction book (1998) -
The day after miners walked off the job, a particularly brutal mine guard died in a gunfight with strikers.
Academic text (2004) -
By midday, the U.S. and Afghan soldiers were tied up in a series of rolling gunfights in the cluster of villages on the steppe.
Academic text (2011) -
The fugitive was captured after an eight-minute gunfight that left five of his bodyguards dead.
Synonyms
79
5.6
A violent fight in which people fire guns at each other
56
6.5
A short battle where armed people shoot at each other
22
6.4
A brief unplanned fight between small groups, often during a larger conflict
11
7.3
A violent fight with guns to kill or scare people
1
5.8
A violent clash where people shoot at each other with guns
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
8.6
Be badly prepared for a situation where others have much better tools
Compounds
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word gunfight is the joining of gun ('a weapon that shoots') and fight ('a battle'), so it means a short fight where people shoot at each other with guns.