shoot out

verb

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

noun

1. a conclusive gunfight

Example Sentences

The following week he charged into a play-off at Wentworth and although he lost it to Billy Horschel's eagle in the BMW PGA shoot out there was hope.

From BBC

He eclipsed Fleetwood's plucky challenge after Jon Rahm and McIlroy had threatened golden glory in what proved 2024's best day for golf, with so many big guns involved in such a dramatic shoot out.

From BBC

Flames shoot out of the rocket launcher lighting up the Gobi Desert, which is then filled with a deafening roar.

From BBC

Between 1974 and ’82, she released six albums in tandem with her ex-husband, the master guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson, culminating in “Shoot Out the Lights,” a work consecrated by critics, in part because of its forensic dissection of the couple’s own crumbling marriage.

From New York Times

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From New York Times

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