shoot-'em-up

1. 1.

   a movie featuring shooting and violence

   Broadermovie

Questions about shoot-'em-up

What does shoot-'em-up mean?

shoot-'em-up means "a movie featuring shooting and violence".

How many syllables are in shoot-'em-up?

shoot-'em-up has 3 syllables: shoo-t-'e-m-up. The stress falls on "shoo".

Is shoot-'em-up a common word?

shoot-'em-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.