school shooting
school shooting noun: a mass shooting which occurs in a school or university, targeting their students and staff; typically in an indiscriminate manner.
Noun
school shooting (plural school shootings)
- A mass shooting which occurs in a school or university, targeting their students and staff; typically in an indiscriminate manner.
- The video that Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, both seniors, produced in their video production class has been turned over to authorities, said Veik, a day after Harris and Klebold - members of the Trench Coat Mafia - committed the most heinous school shooting in U.S. history and then...1999 April 22, Erin Emery, Steve Lipsher, Ricky Young, “Video, poems foreshadowed day of disaster”, in The Denver Post, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2016
Forms of school shooting
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Origin of school shooting
From school + shooting. First use appears c. 1903 in the Savannah Morning News.
Words formed from school shooting
Questions about school shooting
- What does school shooting mean?
- School shooting means a mass shooting which occurs in a school or university, targeting their students and staff; typically in an indiscriminate manner.
- What part of speech is school shooting?
- School shooting is a noun.
- What is the plural of school shooting?
- The plural of school shooting is school shootings.
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