run point

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run point (third-person singular simple present runs point, present participle running point, simple past ran point, past participle run point)

  1. (military) Synonym of take point (to assume the first and most exposed position in a formation).
    • 2013, Howard E[ugene] Wasdin, Stephen Templin, Easy Day for the Dead: A SEAL Team Six Outcasts Novel, New York, N.Y. []: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 194:
      John hustled to the front and ran point. Three armed Hezbollah men appeared from the barracks to their right. John stopped, planted his feet, and fired from the standing position: pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop.
  2. Synonym of take point (to assume a key role in an operation).

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run point

  1. past participle of run point