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# shootout

«shootout» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fight with guns between two people or groups** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a shootout, shootouts; also shoot-out)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shootout is a fight with guns between two people or groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/#m1)

2) (sport) A penalty shootout is a way to decide a drawn match: players take turns to shoot at goal, and the team that scores more wins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In sport, especially football and hockey, a shootout ends a drawn game. In Wild West stories, a shootout is a gunfight. Phrases: «penalty shootout», «win on a shootout», «go to a shootout».

### examples

- The match was a draw, so it went to a penalty shootout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/#x1)
- We won the shootout 5–4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/#x2)
- In the film there was a shootout at noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/#x3)
- The goalkeeper saved three shots in the shootout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/#x4)
- Each team takes 5 kicks in a shootout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/#x5)
- The police ended the shootout safely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/#x6)

### note

Also written «shoot-out». In a shootout score like 5–4, the bigger number wins; the match score stays a draw.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shootout» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shootout/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.