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Firefight
noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
"Military Specialization Soldier Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight."
- 2 An intense argument. figuratively
"Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way."
Verb
- 1 To engage in a firefight.
"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."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From fire + fight.
Etymology 2
From fire + fight.
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