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shoot and scoot verb to engage in warfare involving brief contact with the enemy and then a quick withdrawal US- It was therefore important for the artillery to keep moving. Shoot ’n scoot was a popular way of putting it. In modern combat you’re either quick or you’re dead. — Harold Coyle, Team Yankee, p. 94, 1987
- The United States, by contrast, practices “hip shooting” or “shoot and scoot,” in which guns are moved from position to position, firing at each stop. — USA Today, p. 4A, 20 January 1991
- — American Speech, p. 400, Winter 1991: “Among the new words”
- Take potshots and scarper as quickly as possible is what the Iraqis are doing in a tactic known as “shoot and scoot”. — The Guardian, 4 April 2003
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