firefight

noun

1. A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.

   “Military Specialization Soldier Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight.”

2. (figuratively)An intense argument.

   “Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.”

verb

1. To engage in a firefight.

   “His goal: a patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar, where he and his men firefought a thousand Taliban to take the hill and call in the air strikes critical to turning the tide.”