gunplay

1. 1.

   a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten

   Synonymsgunfightshootout

   Broaderfight

Other forms of gunplay

plural

gunplays·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gunplay

What does gunplay mean?

gunplay means "a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten".

How many syllables are in gunplay?

gunplay has 2 syllables: gun-play. The stress falls on "gun".

What is another word for gunplay?

Close synonyms include gunfight, shootout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gunplay a common word?

gunplay is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.