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pistols at dawn en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A duel.
  2. (broadly, uncountable) A disagreement strong enough to evoke a duel.
    • By rights, the making of To Wong Foo should have been fun for Patrick, Wesley, and John, but from the first it was pistols at dawn. 2009, Wendy Leigh, Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance, page 149:

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