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Close quarter
noun
Any of several strong wooden barriers erected across the deck of a merchant sailing ship, having loopholes through which muskets could be fired to resist boarding attacks
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Close quarter battle (CQB) is the fighting system of choice for the NZSAS.
Close quarter combat and even hand-to-hand fighting took place as the Egyptians cleared the ghost town building by building.
Close quarter camps are usually the most efficient.
And then Collazo is down from some close quarter punching, started by a left hook.
The 3-year-old Flute took the worst of some close quarter zig-zagging and finished second.
Long-range or close quarter attack (CQA)?
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The close-quarter thrashing, like the water, can get rough.
One Marine was the victor of 50 close-quarter fights.
Uses of vision by rats in play fighting and other close-quarter social interactions.
He recommended the Bushmaster for police SWAT teams "in close-quarter encounters with evildoers".
A close-quarter manoeuvre before a baying crowd of Happy Eaters just wasn't going to happen.
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