shoot-down has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) murder by shooting someone down in cold blood

Used in print

(Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)

They would n't o ' stood no chance with you in a plain , straight-out shoot-down '' .

Which would you be most scairt of - a dry-gulchin ' or a shoot-down '' ?

Related terms

murder

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