shootout

séance de tirs au but

Série de tirs de pénalité qui départage deux équipes à égalité.

En anglais simple : A contest of penalty shots used to decide the winner when teams finish with equal scores.

• Our team won the shootout.
• The final was decided by a penalty shootout.
• Their goalkeeper saved two shots in the shootout.

Synonymes : penalty shootout

Expressions courantes : penalty shootout, win a shootout, lose a shootout, shootout victory

fusillade

Combat où des personnes de camps opposés se tirent dessus avec des armes à feu.

En anglais simple : A fight in which people on opposing sides shoot guns at each other.

• Two men died in the shootout.
• Police exchanged fire with the suspects during a shootout.
• The film ends with a shootout in the street.

Comment l'utiliser : shootout with someone (The gang was involved in a shootout with police.); shootout between A and B (A shootout between rival gangs left three people injured.)

Synonymes : gunfight, gun battle

Expressions courantes : shootout with someone, deadly shootout, shootout between groups

tournoi shootout

Compétition de poker où le dernier joueur restant à chaque table passe au tour suivant.

En anglais simple : A poker competition where each table’s last remaining player moves to the next round.

• She entered a poker shootout.
• Each table winner advances in this shootout tournament.
• He won his first table in the shootout.

Expressions courantes : poker shootout, shootout tournament