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Showdown   /ʃˈoʊdˌaʊn/   Listen
Showdown

noun
1.
A hostile disagreement face-to-face.  Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off.






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"Showdown" Quotes from Famous Books



... of mankind from nostalgia (professional name for homesickness) down to enlargement of the coco (unprofessional name for the swelled head) and are doing everything in their power to make a little easier the big game we are playing to a showdown with the Kaiser. ...
— The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918, - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 • American Expeditionary Forces

... worked in seconds instead of minutes, realizing that they must take no risks in a showdown with Garrick. Rooms that might perhaps have given some clew of their presence, perhaps finger-prints which might have settled their identity at once, were now being destroyed. We had defeated them. We had the precious letter. But ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve

... I ain't. But we'll talk about that when the subject is riper. There will be a showdown some day, and don't you forget it. Well, Charley is calling me. So long, Miss Three-Quarters-Past-Seventeen." He went jingling down the steps and swung to the saddle. "I'll not forget the ad, and when I find the right man I'll ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine

... that are. If it's a showdown he'll dig the dough up. I ain't a bit worried about that. His brother, Webb, ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine



Words linked to "Showdown" :   face-off, disagreement, encounter, confrontation



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