shoot-'em-up
Example Sentences
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It's very shoot 'em up and it's fun and the action's big and all that, but the movie in and of itself doesn't matter, matter to you, not anywhere in here.
From Salon • Aug. 21, 2021
Instead, we get a poor man’s Contra full of bullet-spraying enemies that would be better suited to a shoot ’em up than a run and gun.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2020
In the Martin Scorsese-produced shoot ’em up “Free Fire,” South African actor Sharlto Copley plays Vern, a narcissistic gunrunner in a polyester suit who’s prone to a certain behavioral grandiloquence.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2017
In addition to using their robot friends to solve puzzles, players can change the color of their weapon’s bullets, a feature classic shoot 'em up Ikaruga used to excellent effect.
From The Verge • Aug. 31, 2016
A collaboration between Hungarian studio Digital Reality and Japan-based Grasshopper Manufacturer, Sine Mora is a curious beast: a shoot 'em up grown neither in the arcades nor in the wild west of the app store.
From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012
