| 单词 | shoot-to-kill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshoot-to-kill (e) to shoot to kill (cf. kill v. 6c), implying the desire or intention to kill, rather than frighten or wound, a living target. Also shoot-to-kill adjectival phr. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] > try to kill shoot-to-kill1867 the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] > eager to kill sanguinolent1577 sanguineous1612 sanguisugous1615 sanguinary1623 sanguinarian1637 sanguinarious1654 sanguinous1663 sanguine1705 bloodhot1866 red-handed1879 red-hand1894 kill-crazy1942 shoot-to-kill1973 1867 Harper's Mag. Feb. 274/2 Wild Bill with his own hands has killed hundreds of men... ‘He shoots to kill’, as they say on the border. 1949 N. Marsh Swing, Brother, Swing iii. 48 Plays like he shoots an' he shoots to kill. 1956 ‘J. Christopher’ Death of Grass v. 79 ‘Must you shoot to kill?’ He began to say: ‘It's a matter of safety.’ 1973 Black Panther 7 Apr. 10/3 LEAA was the liberal establishment's attempt to modernize police techniques as a substitute for ‘shoot to kill’ repression. 1977 New Yorker 15 Aug. 67/1 A Cuban businessman..recalled favorably Mayor Richard Daley's calling for the National Guard and giving the police shoot-to-kill orders because of the Chicago riots. < as lemmas |
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