Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shooting of guns with intent to inflict harm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instance of the firing of small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
discharge offirearms , usually withviolent intent and inconfrontations .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
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Examples
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This certainly turns out to be the case, and a certain amount of escapology and gunplay is required.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Lone Ranger - 12 The Lone Ranger In Wild Horse Canyon Blue Tyson 2008
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The average gunplay is fun, if not very similar to a lot of what’s out there, and all of this would be just fine, if the jetpack elements outshone these, the freeing motions of flight scrubbing away the dullness!
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That citizen would certainly find themselves investigated pretty thoroughly until it was found out what they were doing that resulted in gunplay.
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The gunplay is a far cry from the sleek, almost-choreographed battles in Mann's
unknown title 2009
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The gunplay is a natural evolution of the cover-based mechanic originated in Gears of War, and controls almost identically.
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The gunplay is a far cry from the sleek, almost-choreographed battles in Mann's
unknown title 2009
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Happily, by "gunplay" they writer didn't mean, "What's the upside of random shootings?"
Sharp as a Marble Robb Allen 2010
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Happily, by "gunplay" they writer didn't mean, "What's the upside of random shootings?"
Sharp as a Marble Robb Allen 2010
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It's hard to recall a national political figure since George Wallace who played so fast and loose with images of gunplay, demonization and death.
Dave Zirin: It's Not a Game: Sarah Palin and the Madness of March Dave Zirin 2011
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It's hard to recall a national political figure since George Wallace who played so fast and loose with images of gunplay, demonization and death.
Dave Zirin: It's Not a Game: Sarah Palin and the Madness of March Dave Zirin 2011
yarb commented on the word gunplay
I thought this word had fallen out of usage until I moved to Canada, where despite never being used in conversation it's a staple of TV reports. One of those news-only words, like lethal cocktail. To me it sounds cute and quaint, very Wild-West.
October 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word gunplay
Ah, those TV news terms. Everything sounds so heroic. My favorite is "fighting for his (or her) life" when someone ends up in a hospital.
October 13, 2007
yarb commented on the word gunplay
A man of 18 is fighting for his life tonight after gunplay outside the 7-11. Witnesses described three youths fleeing the scene.
October 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word gunplay
Yes! I believe a list is in order. Would you like to do the honors, yarb, or should I?
October 13, 2007