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gunfight

[ guhn-fahyt ]

noun

  1. a battle between two or more people or groups armed with guns, gun, especially a confrontation between two gunfighters using revolvers in the frontier days of the American West.


gunfight

/ ˈɡʌnˌfaɪt /

noun

  1. a fight between persons using firearms


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Derived Forms

  • ˈgunˌfighting, noun
  • ˈgunˌfighter, noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of gunfight1

First recorded in 1650–60; gun 1 + fight

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Example Sentences

This year, you stop bringing a pleasant, reasonable knife to a gunfight.

Murray added: “Schneiderman is bringing a knife to a gunfight.”

This weekend I posted a book club entry about Adam Winkler's important history of US gun law, Gunfight.

“Many of those Libyans died in the gunfight fighting off the attackers,” one of the officials said.

There was no 40-minute gunfight, he writes, and the SEALs were not fired at as they approached the compound.

Natural target in a gunfight, and in a rough-and-tumble it gets them all tangled up.

The gunfight destroyed his faith in his ability to do it—or most of it, anyway.

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