exchange of fire
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- The act of shooting at each other by antagonists armed with guns.
- 2002, William Alexander Binny Douglas, Roger Flynn Sarty, No Higher Purpose, page 98:
- It was the RCN's first exchange of fire with the enemy during the Second World War.
- 2010, Stephen Banks, A Polite Exchange of Bullets, page 253:
- The duellists met at ten paces, and at the first exchange of fire Mr C. was slightly wounded.
- 2010, Roger W. Shuy, The Language of Defamation Cases, page 19:
- A man's response to the threat of gunplay bore far more meaning than the exchange of fire itself.
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