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crossfire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of crossfire
crossfire
In ensuing crossfire, Gadhafi was shot in the head, the government account said.
From the delawareonline.com
When you're caught in this kind of crossfire you're basically screwed either way.
From the forbes.com
He said the crossfire made it impossible to take the wounded man to the hospital.
From the guardian.co.uk
He threw five pitches for strikes, none as devastating as his crossfire cutter.
From the denverpost.com
Honda and other foreign-run automakers would likely be caught in the crossfire.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Innocents caught in the crossfire account for about 4% of the toll, he estimated.
From the usatoday.com
From afar, of course, this rhetorical crossfire can seem almost comically absurd.
From the time.com
Mr Gordon was caught in the crossfire with a bullet ricocheting through his head.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
No one was captured, but several Iraqi civilians were wounded in the crossfire.
From the edition.cnn.com
- A lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions
- Fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross
- A crossfire (also known as interlocking fire) is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons such as assault rifles or sub-machine guns) so that their arcs of fire overlap. This tactic came to prominence in World War I.
- Crossfire is a 2007 novel by Andy McNab. It is the 10th book in the Nick Stone series. The paperback version was released on 5th Nov 2007.
- Crossfire is a board game created by the Milton Bradley Company in 1971. The object of the game is to score goals by pushing one of the two pucks into the opposing player's goal. This task is accomplished by shooting small metal ball bearings at the pucks using the attached guns.
- "Crossfire" is the debut solo single from singer-songwriter and frontman of The Killers, Brandon Flowers. Written by Flowers himself, and produced by Brendan O'Brien,, it is the first single from his debut solo album, Flamingo.
- Crossfire is a card game for 2 or more people in which the aim is to win more rounds than your opponent. You can win rounds by getting the highest card above a neutral card.
- Crossfire (William Cross) is a fictional character, supervillain in the Marvel Comics fictional Marvel Universe. He was created by writer Steven Grant and artist Jim Craig in Marvel Two-in-One #52 (June 1979).
- Crossfire is a free and open source cross platform multiplayer online computer role-playing game.
