oblique fire

noun

Fire whose direction is not perpendicular to the line fired at.

Meanings

nounoblique fire (usually uncountable, plural oblique fires)

plural oblique fires

  1. uncountableusuallygovernmentFire whose direction is not perpendicular to the line fired at.
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