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shootout

[ shoot-out ]

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noun

a gunfight that must end in defeat for one side or the other, as between gunfighters in the Old West, criminal groups, or law-enforcement officers and criminals.
Slang. any military conflict or skirmish.
Slang. a high-scoring or intensely played game or tournament, as of basketball or ice hockey.
Soccer. a method of breaking a tie score at the end of overtime in which five players from each team alternate shooting at the opponent's goal, starting from a spot 35 yards (39 meters) from the goal line, in an attempt to kick the ball past the rival goalkeeper in under five seconds.

1945–50; noun use of verb phrase shoot ( it ) out to settle a dispute with firearms

Even though my character got killed in that first episode it was a pretty shootout scene.

Morales made his way to Mexico, where an effort to capture him led to a shootout, which ended with a local cop being killed.

His game lasts until his final ship has either collided with an asteroid or lost a shootout with an enemy saucer.

“So maybe I get trapped here or something and have to have a John Wayne shootout,” McMullen told CNN.

Downtown L.A. was basically just Skid Row back then, and we closed it down to shoot that shootout sequence.

Heard tell of gunfighters knotchin' their irons for each man they take in a shootout.

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