Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A shooting of guns with intent to inflict harm.
Wiktionary
- n. The discharge of firearms, usually with violent intent and in confrontations.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An instance of the firing of small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
Examples
“This certainly turns out to be the case, and a certain amount of escapology and gunplay is required.”
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“The average gunplay is fun, if not very similar to a lot of what’s out there, and all of this would be just fine, if the jetpack elements outshone these, the freeing motions of flight scrubbing away the dullness!”
“That citizen would certainly find themselves investigated pretty thoroughly until it was found out what they were doing that resulted in gunplay.”
“The gunplay is a natural evolution of the cover-based mechanic originated in Gears of War, and controls almost identically.”
“Happily, by "gunplay" they writer didn't mean, "What's the upside of random shootings?”
“It's hard to recall a national political figure since George Wallace who played so fast and loose with images of gunplay, demonization and death.”
The Huffington Post: Dave Zirin: It's Not a Game: Sarah Palin and the Madness of March
“Its nightclubs, brothels and bustling markets lend a vivid spark to his pulp fiction, injected with ample doses of carnal extravagance, gunplay and rough humor.”
“On one occasion gunplay caused a German freighter to depart before being unloaded.”
“It's probably no accident that McCallister is played by Michael O'Neill, who learned a lot about gunplay as a Secret Service agent on The West Wing and as the gunman who shot the hell out of Seattle Grace in last year's Grey's Anatomy finale.”
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Lists
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
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Skip The Light Fontastic
Fonts whose names are wacky, powerful, intriguing, whimsical, exotic and so on.
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Action Movie in 50 Words
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reesetee Yes! I believe a list is in order. Would you like to do the honors, yarb, or should I? Oct 13, 2007
yarb A man of 18 is fighting for his life tonight after gunplay outside the 7-11. Witnesses described three youths fleeing the scene. Oct 13, 2007
reesetee Ah, those TV news terms. Everything sounds so heroic. My favorite is "fighting for his (or her) life" when someone ends up in a hospital. Oct 13, 2007
yarb I thought this word had fallen out of usage until I moved to Canada, where despite never being used in conversation it's a staple of TV reports. One of those news-only words, like lethal cocktail. To me it sounds cute and quaint, very Wild-West. Oct 13, 2007