shoot it out
— phrasal verb with shoot uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/verb shot, shot
If opposing groups or people armed with guns shoot it out, they shoot at each other until one of the groups or people is dead or defeated.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- action stations
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fray
- gunfight
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
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