Meaning

1 senses
  1. A battle (or a duel) using small arms.

    a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Bruno has been in a gunfight.

  2. There are almost no gunfights in Japan.

    ruВ Японии почти не бывает перестрелок. — Selena777

  3. He started a gunfight.

  4. They prepared for a gunfight.

  5. The gunfight lasted only minutes.

Origin

From gun + fight.

From gun + fight.

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Forms

plural: gunfights
Singulargunfight
Pluralgunfights

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten:gunplayshootout

Word family

1 related words
Derivedgunfighter

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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