[
UK
/ʃˈuːtaʊt/
]
[ US /ˈʃutaʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈʃutaʊt/ ]
NOUN
- a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
How To Use shootout In A Sentence
- The game ended up going to a penalty shootout, which was pretty nerve-wracking, and a little anticlimatic at the same time.
- One came courtesy of two goals in added time, the other via a penalty shootout. The Sun
- In part two: Showdown: Soccer's big guns prepare for a shootout.
- For years, the underground bailes, or funk parties, ended in fistfights or shootouts between gangs.
- A gunman killed in a shootout with police had texted his girlfriend minutes earlier to say: "The feds are following me."
- Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts, he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.
- The NHL will now have what's called a shootout if the overtime period still ends in a deadlock.
- The recent local troubles with the shootout was kind of a non-event for most of us here. Page 2
- He died in 1832 during midnight shootout with Rod MacToddy, the cattle thief.
- France reached the semifinals but lost to West Germany in a penalty shootout after one of the best games of all time. The Sun