noun

• 1mainly US A situation in which two individuals stare at each other, typically in a hostile or intimidating way, until one is no longer able to maintain eye contact and feels forced to look away.

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  • ‘he won his staredown with Matt’

  1. 1.1A confrontation between two parties in which neither side is prepared to back down.
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     • ‘both sides are urging quick action but offering no compromises in a political staredown that shows no signs of breaking’