friendly firenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌfrend.li ˈfaɪər/us/ˌfrend.li ˈfaɪr/specializedduring a war, shooting that is hitting you from your own side, not from the enemy:
Three soldiers were killed by friendly fire when a mortar bomb hit their truck.
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
- slug it out idiom
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