Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Discharge of a military weapon that injures or kills a member of one's own armed forces or an ally.
Wiktionary
- n. Weapons fire from allied or friendly forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces or enemy fire.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Weapons fire{9}, such as artillery or aerial bombardment, from one's own forces; -- used mostly when troops do damage or cause casualties among their own forces.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fire that injures or kills an ally
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘friendly fire’.
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things (bad)
things you may fall victim to.
goto things (good)
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Mistakes Were Made
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Fire when ready
Words and phrases containing fire.
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Oxymorons
Two contradictory terms in a war of words.
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That's funny...
words that make you smile...
can be funny words, oxymorons or words describing laughter and fun.giggle, sniggle, snicker, chuckle, titter, guffaw, smile, hoot, twitter, hee-haw, tee-hee, snort and 68 more...

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