Usually means: Bursts of gunfire or missiles.
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  1. salvoes: Merriam-Webster
  2. salvoes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. salvoes: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. salvoes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. salvoes: Wiktionary
  8. salvoes: Dictionary.com
  9. salvoes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. salvoes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (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:  A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
noun:  (by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
noun:  The combined cheers of a crowd.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To discharge weapons in a salvo.
noun:  A surname from Italian.
noun:  A census-designated place in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
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