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shootout

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈʃuːtaʊt//

A decisive battle, especially a gunfight.

noun

  1. 1

    A decisive battle, especially a gunfight.

  2. 2

    A penalty shootout.

  3. 3

    A series of penalty shots during which a tied game is resolved.

  4. 4

    A multitable poker tournament in which only the last player on a table goes on to the next.

    64 players entered the shooutout tournament, and were divided into eight tables of eight players each. The winner in each table went on to the final table, also consisting of eight players.

  5. 5

    A match in which both teams score highly.

Etymology

Deverbal from shoot out.

Forms

plural
shootouts
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).