salvo
- Noun. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
- Noun. (military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
- Noun. By extension, any volley, as in an argument or debate.
- Noun. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
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