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mass shootings

mass shootings is the plural of mass shooting.

Meaning of mass shooting

Noun

mass shooting (countable and uncountable, plural mass shootings)

  1. (US, crime) The shooting of multiple people over a short period of time, particularly when there are many victims and in which the victims are targeted indiscriminately.
    • Police on Monday said they have arrested one man who is a suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six people and wounded 12 others.2022 April 4, Susannah Cullinane, Holly Yan, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, “All 6 victims killed in the Sacramento mass shooting are identified as police arrest a suspect”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    shooting spree

Questions about mass shootings

What is mass shootings the plural of?
Mass shootings is the plural of mass shooting.

Words near mass shootings in the dictionary

  1. mass shift
  2. mass shifts
  3. mass shooter
  4. mass shooters
  5. mass shooting
  6. mass shootings
  7. mass spam
  8. mass spec
  9. mass specs
  10. mass spectra
  11. mass spectrograph

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