shoot 'em upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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shoot 'em up (plural shoot 'em ups)

1. (idiomatic, film, television, literature, video games) A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.

   My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.

   • 1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88:

     The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.

   • 1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

     An unmissable shoot 'em up.

   1. (video games) A video game in which one plays as a character moving and shooting in a two-dimensional world, with emphasis on dodging bullets and predicting enemy movement patterns.

      Synonym: shmup

      Hyponyms: bullet hell, cute-'em-up

派生語

• cute-'em-up

参考

• beat 'em up