shootout
- noun
- /ˈʃuːtaʊt/
- NSFW
- At times, he confronted bands of his rivals and engaged in wild-west type shootouts.
It was in the town of Argyll and they got in a shootout with locals in the town.
- It was in the town of Argyll and they got in a shootout with locals in the town.
- I'd been in another shootout where I'd actually hit somebody.
- He's shot and killed by police and an officer is killed in this horrific shootout in a suburb of Dallas.
- So during that shootout, when he basically ambushed everybody, Los Chepitos, those guys, Ovidio, they were all there.
- But it was it was like shootouts, shit going on like that.
- But but anyway, no, we had a bunch of shootouts.
- And if if they give Manhunter a read, it's got the best like Final Attack in their best, best shootout ever.
- None of this shootouts and and you know, the, the, the nonsense that you see in now, just the, the rioting and looting and stuff.
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We are live here in downtown, where last night police are saying a massive shootout took place between local law enforcement and drug traffickers.
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After the shootout at the club, I figured I needed more firepower.
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Well, I wanted to ask you a few questions regarding the shootout that occurred earlier today.
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I am here because my partner was killed four years ago, in a shootout.
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3 men were reported killed today after a shootout with the FBI in a quiet neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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My niece was almost killed in a shootout in Miami.
Fiction book (2001) -
Tensions have, on occasion, led to deadly shootouts among the groups.
Academic text (1993) -
At the close of the shootout, Lenahan's daughters were found dead in the truck from gunshot wounds.
Academic text (2017) -
During the shootout, Mrs. Phoebe DeWolfe, aged 33, watching from a window across the street gave premature birth to a five-and-a-half-pound baby boy.
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A public utilities worker for the city is now dead after a shootout with police.
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Etymology
Shootout joins shoot ('to fire a gun') and out, making a short name for an event when people shoot at each other. So, a shootout is a violent fight where guns are fired.