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active shooters

active shooters is the plural of active shooter.

Meaning of active shooter

Noun

active shooter (plural active shooters)

  1. (US) A person actively engaged in a shooting spree.
    • In most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see active, shooter.
    • Although I had been an active shooter since I was thirteen as a young twenty-five year old^([sic]) police officer I was convinced by a Coast Guard firearms instructor to abstain from shooting a live round for six months in order to rid myself of a badly reconditioned motor response.1962, Police, page 33

Questions about active shooters

What is active shooters the plural of?
Active shooters is the plural of active shooter.

Words near active shooters in the dictionary

  1. active recall
  2. active rock
  3. active service
  4. active shooter
  5. active shooter drill
  6. active shooters
  7. active solar
  8. active sonar
  9. active sonars
  10. active suffrage
  11. active time battle

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