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driveby

driveby is the alternative form of drive-by.

Meaning of drive-by

Adjective

drive-by (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Of a crime, etc., carried out from a moving vehicle.
  2. (figuratively) Done in a cursory or superficial manner with little regard for the issues involved; careless, offhand.
    • If the highly visible mockery of teenagers leads to a serious examination of the practices and institutions that perpetuate racism, perhaps it will be worth it. But I have my doubts. This kind of drive-by scapegoating does not seem conducive to genuine reflection (and it definitely doesn't...2012 April 11, L. V. Anderson, “Talking to Teens Who Tweeted Racist Things About The Hunger Games”, in Slate, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023

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Forms of driveby

pluraldrivebys

Questions about driveby

What is driveby the alternative form of?
Driveby is the alternative form of drive-by.

Words near driveby in the dictionary

  1. driveaways
  2. drivebelt
  3. drivebelts
  4. drivebolt
  5. drivebolts
  6. driveby
  7. drivebys
  8. drived
  9. drivee
  10. drivees
  11. drivehead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: driveby (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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