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Showdown   /ʃˈoʊdˌaʊn/   Listen
Showdown

noun
1.
A hostile disagreement face-to-face.  Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off.






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"Showdown" Quotes from Famous Books



... interests that I am asking to have him taken care of while he wages his mental war with this Jap. I want Donald to have the victory, but I want it to be a victory that will be an inspiration to any boy of white blood among any of our allies or among peoples who should be our allies. There's a showdown coming between the white race and a mighty aggregation of colored peoples one of these days, and if the white man doesn't realize pretty soon that his supremacy is not only going to be contested but may be lost, it just simply will be lost; that ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... "Look, I didn't kill him. He went home from the White House this evening, apparently sound enough, after a long, stiff, nasty conference with the President. Ingersoll wanted to go to Berlin and call a showdown at the International conference there, and he had a policy brawl with the President, and the President wouldn't let him go, sent an undersecretary instead, and threatened to kick Ingersoll out of the cabinet unless he quieted down. Ingersoll got home at 4:30, collapsed ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse

... she smiled. "Alvarez's men won't leave a cask unturned. No, Dad, I'd rather take a chance with you, here. If it comes to a showdown, ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant

... for meanness," Quin ventured. "She'd give you all she had if it came to a showdown. But none of 'em realize you are grown up; they are afraid to ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice

... that are. If it's a showdown he'll dig the dough up. I ain't a bit worried about that. His ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine



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