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shoot out

Speech parts

1. shoot out - Noun

2. shoot out - Verb

Meaning

shoot out (plural shoot outs)

Alternative spelling of shootout

To destroy something or remove something from its usual location by shooting.

You'll shoot your eye out!

To completely extirpate (wildlife) from an area by shooting.

To emerge with great speed.

To fire from a weapon.

shoot-out (plural shoot-outs)

Alternative spelling of shootout

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shoot-out

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There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened. Cassandra Clare

The seer "sees" that every man is in touch with everything else, not through his hands, but through a bunch of long fibers that shoot out in all directions from the center of his abdomen. Those fibers join a man to his surroundings; they keep his balance; they give him stability. Carlos Castaneda

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it. Rosie Perez

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard. Shawn Ashmore

I'd made water shoot out of the bathroom fixtures. I didn't understand how. But the toilets responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing. Rick Riordan

Snailie, snailie, shoot out yer horn, and tell us if it'll be a bonny day the morn. Scottish Proverb

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