gunfight
pronunciation
How to pronounce gunfight in British English:
UK [ˈgʌnfaɪt]
How to pronounce gunfight in American English:
US [ˈɡʌnˌfaɪt]
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- Noun:
- a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
Word Origin
- gunfight (n.)
- also gun-fight, a combat with handguns, 1889, American English, from gun (n.) + fight (n.). Related: Gunfighter.
Example
- 1. The taj mahal hotel is engulfed in smoke during a gunfight
- 2. A meeting of surviving taliban commanders was said to have ended in a brawl and gunfight .
- 3. Gunfight : army agents battle against drug lords in monterrey , mexico
- 4. Two days later an intense gunfight broke out in an upscale district of the capital that sits in the shadow of mr assad 's clifftop palace .
- 5. Inevitably conspiracy theories swirled , including an imaginative suggestion that mr bin laden was not killed in abbottabad at all , but that americans brought his corpse there from the mountains and then staged a gunfight in the dark in order to embarrass pakistan 's leaders .