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View synonyms for shoot out

shoot out

verb

  1. to fight to the finish by shooting (esp in the phrase shoot it out )
“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


noun

  1. a conclusive gunfight
“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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Control Room Sook Shoot Out -- some editorial changes and some VFX muzzle flashes.

It looks like the shoot-out at the OK Corral in a leafy Eindhoven suburb—but nobody seems to be a very good shot.

That is an astonishing spell of impregnability, one that looked set to last through to a penalty shoot-out tonight.

And the least HBO could do is let us see his eyeballs shoot out of his head or something to mark the occasion.

It ended, magnificently, in a shoot-out between the women in a fairground hall of mirrors.

I was right, so it seems, about getting ashore before the enemy could see to shoot out to sea.

And it carries torpedoes—iron cases filled with dynamite—which it can shoot out against the great warships.

No sooner was the ferry-boat seen to shoot out from the land than Boone motioned the whites to enter the inclosure.

From this line of ramifications (others) shoot out to left and right, much shorter and irregularly distributed.

As soon as anything presses against the cells they shoot out their threads.

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