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shooting spree

shooting spree noun: the random shooting of multiple people with no obvious motive.

Noun

shooting spree (plural shooting sprees)

  1. The random shooting of multiple people with no obvious motive.
    • A man charged with a drive-by shooting spree in Queens over the weekend that left one man dead and at least four others injured told the police that he got his gun from Lucifer and that he was reacting to “red cars closing in,” according to prosecutors at a bedside arraignment yesterday at Bellevue...2006 August 30, Corey Kilgannon, “Shooting-Spree Suspect Cited Devil’s Influence, Police Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    mass shooting

Synonyms of shooting spree

Forms of shooting spree

pluralshooting sprees

Questions about shooting spree

What does shooting spree mean?
Shooting spree means the random shooting of multiple people with no obvious motive.
What part of speech is shooting spree?
Shooting spree is a noun.
What is the plural of shooting spree?
The plural of shooting spree is shooting sprees.

Words near shooting spree in the dictionary

  1. shooting ratios
  2. shooting rights
  3. shooting seat
  4. shooting seats
  5. shooting someone straight
  6. shooting spree
  7. shooting sprees
  8. shooting star
  9. shooting stars
  10. shooting stick
  11. shooting sticks

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