The word "shootouts" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a gunfight between two or more people, but it can also be used in other, more metaphorical contexts. For example, you could use it in a sentence like "The company held a series of shootouts to select the most qualified candidate for the job."
The Guardian found evidence of shootouts in Slaviansk on Sunday, including a clash between government troops and unknown men on a road outside the city.
It is a chilling reminder that this is Tijuana, the host-city of Mexico's most powerful drug mob, where over 300 people were murdered in 1998, most of them in gangland shootouts.
They were expected to accept, rather than risk a second lost season.The new contract is said to include rule changes, too, to liven up games with smaller pads for goalies and penalty shootouts.
FOR those who enjoy the occasional wager, but know more about quark-gluon plasmas and minimal supersymmetry than they do about thoroughbreds or penalty shootouts, the Large Hadron Collider (see article) provides an ideal opportunity to pit their wits against those of the bookmakers.
As if regular shootouts between police and drugs gangs were not enough, now armed militias, run by off-duty cops and their hirelings, have joined the fray, turning whole neighbourhoods into battlefields.
There followed more bank robberies with new confederates; Dillinger twice barely escaped FBI entrapments and shootouts in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
During that year Barrow and Parker engaged in several shootouts with police.
In 1869 Hickok became sheriff of Hays City, Kansas, where he killed several men in shootouts.
That name coincides with the one listed on the apparently hacked Twitter account of @Miut3, whose owner was an active participant in a social-media effort to warn residents about drug gang shootouts.
This gives you the element of surprise in shootouts.
It's a different thing: it's glamorised and wonderful, with shootouts and, in the films especially, an almost Rococo feel.
