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Gunplay

noun
1.
A fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.  Synonyms: gunfight, shootout.






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"Gunplay" Quotes from Famous Books



... stop what's started any more'n a horn-toad can stop a landslide, Sandy Bourke. You can't kill scandal with gunplay. The gel's too young, in one way, an' not young enough in another, to be stayin' on at the Three Star. You oughter have sense enough to know that. Ef one of you was married, or had a wife that 'ud stay with you, it 'ud be different. Or if there was ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... the primary. This had been the usual method employed by Dunlavey when opposition to Watkins developed. Drunken, dissolute, dangerous men were usually on hand to overawe the opposition; the Judge told of instances in which gunplay had developed. But Hollis had determined that Watkins must ...
— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer



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