GUNFIGHT

gunfight, gunplay, shootout

(noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gunfight (plural gunfights)

A battle (or a duel) using small arms.

Verb

gunfight (third-person singular simple present gunfights, present participle gunfighting, simple past and past participle gunfought)

To engage in battle using small arms.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

6 June 2025

PUNGENCY

(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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