firefight
verb
- to engage in an artillery/gun battle
noun
- artilliary/gun battle
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From fire + fight.
- A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
“Military Specialization Soldier Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight.”
- An intense argument.
“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
Etymology: From fire + fight.
- 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.”