Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shoot-'em-up
1 sense of shoot-'em-up
Sense 1
shoot-'em-up -- (a movie featuring shooting and violence)
=> movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick -- (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location")