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means An armed confrontation in which two or more parties shoot at each other to settle who walks away.
from A straightforward 19th-century American compound — 'gun' plus 'fight' — that rose alongside Colt revolvers and the frontier mythology of the Old West; the word itself is plain carpentry of language, but the image it carries (dusty street, high noon, quickdraw) was built later by dime novels and Hollywood westerns, which turned a blunt descriptive term into a whole genre's worth of legend.
- real speed
- draw-to-shot averages a quarter second, not a blink
- hollywood myth
- most historical duels ended in misses, not drama
- ok corral
- lasted roughly thirty seconds, not the legend
- modern version
- mostly ambushes, not showdowns at noon