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ˈshoot-up
[f. vbl. phr. to shoot up: see shoot v. 30 e.]
1. A furious exchange of shooting, a gun-battle, a shoot-out; also, an assault by gun-fire.
1922Blackw. Mag. Oct. 441/2 A favourite form of amusement of the I.R.A. used to consist in what was commonly called ‘shooting up’ a district: these outrages took the form of shooting at every Loyalist who appeared within range for a whole evening... Before one of these shoot-ups you might search every house in the district to be shot-up till dusk, and not find any arms..; but soon after dusk..men would.. distribute arms to the gunmen. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §348/4 Gun battle,..shoot-up. 1962Listener 20 Sept. 438/3 A shoot-up in Alcatraz. 1972P. Dickinson Lizard in Cup ix. 122 The cops in New Jersey got him in a shoot-up with the Black Panthers. 1978New York 3 Apr. 10/2 Were the Egyptian commandos killed by Cypriot soldiers—as the Cyprus government claims—or by the PLO? Was the shoot-up at Larnaca airport a ‘misunderstanding’ or a well-conceived plan?
2. The act of flying low over a target as if to or actually to attack. R.A.F. slang.
1942I. Gleed Arise to Conquer vi. 62 We do a gentle shoot-up of our billets. |