transitive verb
: to settle by shooting
to talk things out, no matter how inconclusively, rather than to shoot them out — A.H.Vandenberg †1951
— often used with it
tried to shoot it out with the cops — Mickey Spillane
transitive verb
: to settle by shooting
to talk things out, no matter how inconclusively, rather than to shoot them out — A.H.Vandenberg †1951
— often used with it
tried to shoot it out with the cops — Mickey Spillane
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012