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词汇 shoot-up
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shoot-up n.

"furious exchange of gunfire," by 1922, from the verbal phrase shoot up "assail by shooting, rampage with guns" (1890); see shoot (v.) + up (adv.). The phrase is attested in late Old English, but in a sense of "well up, overflow." Shoot-'em-up (adj.) in reference to violent entertainment (Western movies, etc.) is from 1942.

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