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- noun Alternative spelling of
shoot 'em up .
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Examples
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What could a Broadway show about Bonnie and Clyde possibly have over the shoot-em-up screen romance in the 1967 film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway?
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Bonnie & Clyde: Don't We Just Love Those Bad Guys and Gals? Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011
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What could a Broadway show about Bonnie and Clyde possibly have over the shoot-em-up screen romance in the 1967 film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway?
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Bonnie & Clyde: Don't We Just Love Those Bad Guys and Gals? Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011
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The plotline is a standard serial actioneer pumped with Bruce Willis shoot-em-up.
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What could a Broadway show about Bonnie and Clyde possibly have over the shoot-em-up screen romance in the 1967 film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway?
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Bonnie & Clyde: Don't We Just Love Those Bad Guys and Gals? Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011
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August 5th, 2009 1: 29 pm ET huge win for diplomacy ... major blow to shoot-em-up cowboy style.
Freed journalist: 'We knew the nightmare was...coming to an end 2009
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If the trailer is to be believed, this should be a funny, bloody shoot-em-up.
The Sci-Fi Cast · 2009
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However in some ways, I felt the same as I do after watching a really violent, "blow-em-up, shoot-em-up, drop-em-dead" film, especially when I'm with a bunch of "normal" people.
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.: Toddlers & Tiaras: A Cultural Car Wreck Ph.D. Dr. Gregory Jantz 2011
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All the shoot-em-up arcade game depictions of the war between a US-like Rome and the Balkan-like Volscians, and the putting of Shakespeare's lines into the mouths of newscasters such as Peter Snow, seem moot since those very words describe defunct codes of military honour.
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I've made it so far through four episodes — and will probably watch more if they're supplied to me — and was even reminded at times of a more cartoonish MI-6 one of my spy faves in the way it's willing to sacrifice key characters, so also like 24, it keeps you a bit on edge even as it traffics in its almost ridiculously macho shoot-em-up antics.
Ask Matt: Glee Project, Summer Finales, Strike Back and More! 2011
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What could a Broadway show about Bonnie and Clyde possibly have over the shoot-em-up screen romance in the 1967 film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway?
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Bonnie & Clyde: Don't We Just Love Those Bad Guys and Gals? Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011
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