Usually means: Position where shooters aim, fire.
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  1. firing line: Merriam-Webster
  2. firing line: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. firing line: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. firing line: Collins English Dictionary
  5. firing line: Vocabulary.com
  6. firing-line: Wordnik
  7. firing line: Wiktionary
  8. firing line: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. firing line: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. firing line: Dictionary.com
  11. Firing Line (TV program), Firing Line (TV series), Firing Line, Firing line, The Firing Line: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. firing line: Rhymezone
  13. firing line: FreeDictionary.org
  14. firing line: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. firing line: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. firing line: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. firing line: Encyclopedia

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  1. firing line: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (firing line)

noun:  (military) The line from which soldiers fire their weapons at a target; especially the front line of troops in a battle.
noun:  A row of shooters.
noun:  (figurative) Line of fire, a situation in which someone or something is targeted.
noun:  (idiomatic) The vanguard of an activity.

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