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gunfight

US/ˈɡʌnˌfaɪt/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,818 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: gunfights

A gunfight is a fight in which both sides use firearms. A running gunfight, killed in a gunfight, a gunfight broke out.

It belongs to the American West in the popular imagination, though the famous street duel is mostly an invention of films. Police reports prefer exchange of fire, which is the same event in flatter words.

Definitions of gunfight

  1. 1noungunfightA fight in which both sides use firearms.B2+

    “Two police officers were injured in a gunfight with the robbers.”

gunfight is a fight.

Where it comes from

From gun + fight.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

gunfight in the wild

  • While lasting less than a minute, the gunfight has been the subject of many books and films.

    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

  • Marshal and Town Marshal, Virgil was in charge, and it was his decision to enforce the ordinance that led to the gunfight.

    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

  • A shootout, also called a firefight, gunfight, or gun battle, is a confrontation in which parties armed with firearms exchange gunfire.

    Shootout

  • Thirteen people were said to have been killed in the gunfight, nine of them by Riley.

    Gunfight at Hide Park

  • The Hunnewell gunfight was an Old West gunfight occurring in Hunnewell, Kansas occurring on August 21, 1884.

    Hunnewell gunfight

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.