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gunshot

 noun
     
Related topics: Colours and Sounds, Weapons
gun‧shot
1 [countable]C the action of shooting a gun, or the sound that this makes:
She says she heard a gunshot at about midnight.
2 [uncountable]PMW the bullets fired from a gun:
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