crossfire
Converging hostile fire
Crossfire is gunfire from multiple directions that intersects in a zone, creating extreme danger for anyone caught there.
The term extends to any situation where someone is caught between opposing forces: She was caught in the crossfire between her feuding parents.
A crossfire of questions or criticism comes from multiple sources at once.
Combat engagement area
- combatArmed hostile engagement
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
- skirmishBrief, limited combat
- firefightExchange of gunfire
shootout · ambush · barrage · volley · salvo · trenches · frontline · warzone
Seized or grabbed
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- controversyProlonged public disagreement
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
- feudBitter ongoing rivalry
accusations · blame · politics · factions · sides · opposing · middle · stuck
Firearm projectiles
- shrapnelScattered explosion fragments
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- caughtSeized or grabbed
- trappedUnable to escape
bystander · collateral · stray · ricochets · hazard · exposure · vulnerable · peril
battlefield
Combat engagement area
firefight · shootout · ambush · barrage · volley · salvo · trenches · frontline · warzone · engagement
caught
Seized or grabbed
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- controversyProlonged public disagreement
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
feud · accusations · blame · politics · factions · sides · opposing · middle · stuck · torn
bullets
Firearm projectiles
- shrapnelScattered explosion fragments
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- caughtSeized or grabbed
trapped · bystander · collateral · stray · ricochets · hazard · exposure · vulnerable · peril · deadly
highway
Major road for travel
- junctionPoint where things meet
- cloverleafLooped highway junction
- overpassBridge spanning a road
underpass · ramp · exit · freeway · motorway · expressway · merge · traffic · flyover · roundabout
- Shootoutspenalty shootout, gunfight, firefight, gun battle, duel
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- tacticsmaneuver, counter-attack, gambit, ambush, counterstrike
- war violencemassacre, bombardment, bombing, shelling, combat
- combat tacticsflanking, ambush, feint, skirmish, firefight
- gun safetygun safety, trigger discipline, safe storage, gun safe, trigger lock