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. (Mil.) 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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fire place
place to place 'fire' words
fire eater, field of fire, campfire, backfire, cannon fire, cease-fire, crown fire, center-fire, direct fire, fire pit, cookfire, fire tongs and 111 more...
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SEDE - military operations
Iran-Iraq War, prevention, increase of readi..., replacement of wa..., rise of readiness, stabilisation, build up, basic training, defence procurement, force modernisation, full mobilisation, grueling training and 387 more...
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things (bad)
things you may fall victim to.
goto things (good)
( randomness, events, situations, nouns )treachery, quagmire, overdose, bombing, suicide, homicide, spam, prison, acute renal failure, bad programming, being pants'd, bleeding out and 37 more...
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Mistakes Were Made
scanno, typo, catachresis, spoonerism, lapsus linguae, lapsus calami, mispronunciation, faux pas, friendly fire, erratum, divorce, mea culpa and 19 more...
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Fire when ready
Words and phrases containing fire.
fire ant, crossfire, fire and brimstone, spitfire, firepower, fireflower, firetower, firetrap, brushfire, fireworks, fire storm, fight fire with fire and 84 more...
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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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A Myriad of Irii
Iris varieties.
abbondanza, abiqua falls, about town, above the clouds, acadian miss, acapulco gold, act of kindness, adoregon, aegean wind, afternoon in rio, aggressively forward, agua fresca and 721 more...
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Jumbo Shrimp
A list of classic oxymorons (using the term loosely). Named after my brother's favorite.
jumbo shrimp, fine mess, plastic glasses, plastic silverware, working vacation, alone together, head butt, new classic, adult children, baby grand, constant change, almost exactly and 191 more...
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Euphemisms
Mostly awful and political.
information campaign, enemy combatant, person of interest, collateral damage, friendly fire, detention centre, children overboard, asylum seeker, health care, national interest, economic management, redeployment and 114 more...
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Loaded Words Part Deux: Two Words Tha...
See also the list Loaded Words (wordnik.com/lists/loaded-words). Two ordinary words (i.e. not proper nouns--Berlin wall or Utah beach wouldn't fit here) that not only combine to make a third concep...
cotton gin, wagon trail, gold rush, democratic republic, wounded knee, wage slavery, rat race, manifest destiny, eminent domain, pork barrel, gateway drug, talking points and 43 more...
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Shameless Euphemisms
rationalisation, downsizing, relocation, restructuring, centralisation, outsourcing, learning difficul..., diasadvantaged, remerchandising, friendly fire, collateral damage, pre-owned
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