firefight

English

Etymology

Noun

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.

Verb

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:
  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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German: Feuergefecht (de) n, Feuerkampf (de) m
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