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noun
Synonym of gun fu (a style of balletic gunplay in action films)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: gun fu
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noun
A fictional martial art based on gun fu.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
Compound of gun + kata (“martial art movements”), from Japanese 型 (kata, “style, pattern”). Attested from, and possibly coined around 2003 for the film Equilibrium (see quotation below).
