Definition of "ship-to-ship" []

• Fired from a a ship to another ship (adjective)

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• "Philip Broke of His Majesty's Frigate Shannon challenged the Chesapeake rebuilt from her 1807 wounds to a ship-to-ship duel off Boston harbor in June 1813."
• "But the Admiralty sent a "secret & confidential" directive to all British captains forbidding any further ship-to-ship combat with those pesky, heavy American frigates."
• "PaperSmyth, I challenge you to ship-to-ship combat!"