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drive by

drive by is the alternative form of drive-by.

Meaning of drive-by

Noun

drive-by (plural drive-bys)

  1. (informal) A crime, such as a shooting, carried out from a moving vehicle.

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Forms of drive by

pluraldrive bys

Questions about drive by

What is drive by the alternative form of?
Drive by is the alternative form of drive-by.

Words near drive by in the dictionary

  1. drive a truck through something
  2. drive a wedge
  3. drive at
  4. drive away
  5. drive back
  6. drive by
  7. drive by shooting
  8. drive by shootings
  9. drive bys
  10. drive chain
  11. drive down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drive by (page history and authors); drive-by (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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