Define "combat"

[Stinky The Clown]

[RandomThoughts]

1. If you take my beer from me, I will take your burbon.

[Bandit]

2. Shooting civilian women and children

:shrug:

[Statistical]

3. Something that kills bugs?

[iamthebandfanman]

4. you mean those troops left are going to be shot at !?

which makes it different from germany, japan, and any other example the warmongers want to try to use as an excuse?!

what?!

[jonnyblitz]

9. yeah, like the local germans are planting IEDS and shooting at

our troops stationed there. :crazy: Some DUers are seriously DUMB AS FUCKING ROCKS.

[mike r]

5. Peace is reigning supreme over Babylonia

except for some projectile exchanges.

[unhappycamper]

6. Getting your ass shot at. n/t

[hobbit709]

7. Precisely

[zipplewrath]

8. It's a military term

That presidents like to throw around in civilian circles because it sounds like some how folks won' be fighting.

The president himself said that we'd still be fighting and dying over there. It's still armed troops, the shoulder patches have just changed.

[xchrom]

10. combat

com·bat
   /v. kəmˈbæt, ˈkɒmbæt, ˈkʌm-; n. ˈkɒmbæt, ˈkʌm-/ Show Spelled Show IPA verb, -bat·ed, -bat·ing or ( especially British ) -bat·ted, -bat·ting, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
–verb (used without object)
2.
to battle; contend: to combat with disease.
–noun
3.
Military . active, armed fighting with enemy forces.
4.
a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, or ideas.
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Origin:
1535–45; < MF combat (n.), combattre (v.) < LL combattere, equiv. to L com- com- + LL battere, for L battuere to strike, beat


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[westerebus]

11. combat

A group of events separated by days of boredom, linked by hours of anxiety and interrupted by minutes of sheer terror and trauma in some god forsaken place for no apparent reason.

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. It was an early video game by Atari for the Atari 2600:

[slackmaster]

13. A 1960s made-for-television drama series depicting World War II battle scenarios

Properly spelled "Combat!"

RIP Vic Morrow.

[TheKentuckian]

14. Nothing but jokes because they know it is a farce.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Not many seem to want to weigh in here.