skirmishnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈskɜː.mɪʃ/us/ˈskɝː.mɪʃ/a fight between a small number of soldiers that is usually short and not planned, and happens away from the main area of fighting in a war
a short argument:
There was a short skirmish between the two of them over who would pay for the meal.
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- action stations
- 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
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skirmish
verb [ I ] ukus
skirmisher
noun [ C ] uk/ˈskɜː.mɪʃ.ər/us/ˈskɝː.mɪʃ.ɚ/