gunfight vs gunplay what difference
what is difference between gunfight and gunplay
English
Etymology
gun + fight
Noun
gunfight (plural gunfights)
- A battle (or a duel) using small arms.
Derived terms
- bring a knife to a gunfight
- gunfighter
Verb
gunfight (third-person singular simple present gunfights, present participle gunfighting, simple past and past participle gunfought)
- To engage in battle using small arms.
English
Etymology
gun + play
Noun
gunplay (usually uncountable, plural gunplays)
- The discharge of firearms, usually with violent intent and in confrontations.
- In the aftermath of the Iraq War, the streets of Baghdad were sometimes filled with gunplay.
- 1985, Larry McMurty, The Lonesome Dove, Simon & Schuster (2010), →ISBN, page 114:
- The one consoling thought was that there might be gunplay before the night was over—Dish had never been in a gun battle but he reasoned that if bullets flew thick and fast Jake might stop one of them, which could change the whole situation.
- 2006, Philippa Gates, Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film, State University of New York Press (2006), →ISBN, page 140:
- Cop action films revelled in scenes of action and violence with the male body at the center engaging in fistfights, kickboxing, car chases, and gunplay.
- 2010, Terrence E. Poppa, Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin, Cinco Puntos Press (2010), →ISBN, page 156:
- The agents were outnumbered, outgunned, and way off the beaten track, but Becky quickly understood that nobody had planned on any gunplay.
- (BDSM) A sexual practice involving the use of a (usually unloaded) firearm for physical and mental stimulation.
- 2009, Quince Mountain, “Cowboy for Christ”, in Believer, Beware: First-person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith (eds. Jeff Sharlet & Peter Manseau), Beacon Press (2009), →ISBN, page 116:
- When the professor turned out to be too warped even for my tastes — consensual knifeplay is one thing; drunken gunplay quite another […]
- 2009, Quince Mountain, “Cowboy for Christ”, in Believer, Beware: First-person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith (eds. Jeff Sharlet & Peter Manseau), Beacon Press (2009), →ISBN, page 116:
References
- “gunplay” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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