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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten [syn: gunfight, gunplay, shootout]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1659 a hostile encounter in which antagonists with guns shoot at each other • gunfighter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. US a fight with firearms. Derivatives: gunfighter n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gunfights) A gunfight is a fight between people using guns. N-COUNT • gunfighter (gunfighters) Eastwood plays retired gunfighter Will Munny. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

antiaircraft fire, cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, dry fire, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, ground fire, gunfire, gunplay, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, interdiction fire, machine-gun fire, mortar fire, musketry, percussion fire, pistol fire, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire, rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, time fire, vertical fire, zone fire