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SHOOT-'EM-UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shoot-'em-up mean?
• SHOOT-'EM-UP (noun)
The noun SHOOT-'EM-UP has 1 sense:
1. a movie featuring shooting and violence
Familiarity information: SHOOT-'EM-UP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A movie featuring shooting and violence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("shoot-'em-up" is a kind of...):
film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
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