shootout
IPA: ʃˈutaʊt
noun
- A decisive battle, especially a gunfight.
- (soccer) A penalty shootout.
- (ice hockey) A series of penalty shots during which a tied game is resolved.
- (poker) A multitable poker tournament in which only the last player on a table goes on to the next.
- (sports) A match in which both teams score highly.
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Examples of "shootout" in Sentences
- Europe and the penalty shootout.
- Beckham also scored in the shootout.
- Chico is shot in the ensuing shootout.
- Four of these games went to a shootout.
- His preference was to die in a shootout.
- He was killed in a shootout with police.
- A shootout with Brian and the cops occur.
- He is killed in the climatic shootout in the final issue.
- The film retells the story of the OK Corral shootout in Tombstone, AZ.
- Billy Clanton was killed in the shootout at the Corral, not the day before.
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