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shooting sprees

shooting sprees is the plural of shooting spree.

Meaning of shooting spree

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

Questions about shooting sprees

What is shooting sprees the plural of?
Shooting sprees is the plural of shooting spree.

Words near shooting sprees in the dictionary

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

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