From fire + fight.
firefight (plural firefights)
- A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Profile Reconstruction:Military Specialization
Soldier
Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight.
firefight (third-person singular simple present firefights, present participle firefighting, simple past and past participle firefought)
- To engage in a firefight.
2011 July 8, Mark Thompson, “Inside the Battle for Kandahar”, in Time[1]:His goal: a patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar, where he and his men firefought a thousand Taliban to take the hill and call in the air strikes critical to turning the tide.
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