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firefight

verb

  1. to engage in an artillery/gun battle
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noun

  1. artilliary/gun battle
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From fire + fight.

  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.

    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.

  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.