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shoot_them_up

shoot 'em up

See also: shoot-'em-up and shoot-em-up

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Noun

shoot ’em up (plural shoot 'em ups)

  1. (idiomatic, film, television, literature, video games) A short story, novel, television show, film, computer game, or other narrative which depicts considerable gunplay.
    My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.
    • 1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989
      An unmissable shoot 'em up.

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