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shoot-out

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˈshoot-out noun [countable]  FIGHTa fight using guns 开枪格斗,枪战 a shoot-out with police 和警察的枪战 penalty shoot-out
Examples from the Corpus
shoot-outAnd 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.
ˈshoot-out nounChineseSyllable
fight Corpus a using guns


shoot-out
ˈshoot-out noun [countable]
a fight using guns:
    a shoot-out with police
penalty shoot-out


shoot-outBrE /ˈʃuːt aʊt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈʃuːt aʊt/ 🔊 nouna fight that is fought with guns until one side is killed or defeated 你死我活的枪战   see also penalty shoot-out