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school shootings

school shootings is the plural of school shooting.

Meaning of school shooting

Noun

school shooting (plural school shootings)

  1. (US, crime) 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

Questions about school shootings

What is school shootings the plural of?
School shootings is the plural of school shooting.

Words near school shootings in the dictionary

  1. school shark
  2. school sharks
  3. school shooter
  4. school shooters
  5. school shooting
  6. school shootings
  7. School Sister of Notre Dame
  8. school sores
  9. school teacher
  10. school teachers
  11. school tie

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