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Phrase(s): shoot something out 1. to stick, throw, or thrust something outward. • The diamond shot bright shafts of light out when the sun fell on it. • The little girl shot out her tongue at the teacher. 2. to settle a matter by the use of guns. • Bill and the cowboy—with whom he had been arguing—went out in the street and shot it out.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs