Firefight

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.

    "Military Specialization Soldier Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight."

  2. 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. 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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