shoot-upn.

Etymology: < verbal phrase to shoot up: see shoot v. 30e.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshoot-up.

1. A furious exchange of shooting, a gun-battle, a shoot-out; also, an assault by gunfire.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > exchange of firing

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shoot-out1953

1922 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 441/2 A favourite form of amusement of the I.R.A. used to consist in what was commonly called ‘shooting up’ a district: these outrages took the form of shooting at every Loyalist who appeared within range for a whole evening... Before one of these shoot-ups you might search every house in the district to be shot-up till dusk, and not find any arms..; but soon after dusk..men would.. distribute arms to the gunmen.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §348/4 Gun battle,..shoot-up.

1962 Listener 20 Sept. 438/3 A shoot-up in Alcatraz.

1972 P. Dickinson Lizard in Cup ix. 122 The cops in New Jersey got him in a shoot-up with the Black Panthers.

1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 10/2 Were the Egyptian commandos killed by Cypriot soldiers—as the Cyprus government claims—or by the PLO? Was the shoot-up at Larnaca airport a ‘misunderstanding’ or a well-conceived plan?

2. The act of flying low over a target as if to or actually to attack. R.A.F. slang.

ΚΠ

1942 I. Gleed Arise to Conquer vi. 62 We do a gentle shoot-up of our billets.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	shoot-up
释义	shoot-upn. Etymology: < verbal phrase to shoot up: see shoot v. 30e.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshoot-up. 1. A furious exchange of shooting, a gun-battle, a shoot-out; also, an assault by gunfire. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > exchange of firing shoot-up1922 shoot-out1953 1922 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 441/2 A favourite form of amusement of the I.R.A. used to consist in what was commonly called ‘shooting up’ a district: these outrages took the form of shooting at every Loyalist who appeared within range for a whole evening... Before one of these shoot-ups you might search every house in the district to be shot-up till dusk, and not find any arms..; but soon after dusk..men would.. distribute arms to the gunmen. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §348/4 Gun battle,..shoot-up. 1962 Listener 20 Sept. 438/3 A shoot-up in Alcatraz. 1972 P. Dickinson Lizard in Cup ix. 122 The cops in New Jersey got him in a shoot-up with the Black Panthers. 1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 10/2 Were the Egyptian commandos killed by Cypriot soldiers—as the Cyprus government claims—or by the PLO? Was the shoot-up at Larnaca airport a ‘misunderstanding’ or a well-conceived plan? 2. The act of flying low over a target as if to or actually to attack. R.A.F. slang. ΚΠ 1942 I. Gleed Arise to Conquer vi. 62 We do a gentle shoot-up of our billets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1922
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