shooting war
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
shooting war (plural shooting wars)
- An outright war between military powers.
- Coordinate terms: cold war, war of nerves
Further reading[edit]
- “shooting war”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “shooting war”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “shooting war”, in Collins English Dictionary.