shootings

Noun

shooting (countable and uncountable, plural shootings)

1. (countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
   • Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
2. (uncountable) the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
   • Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5
3. a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
4. the act of one who, or that which, shoots
   • the shooting of rays of light
5. a sensation of darting pain
   • a shooting in one's head
6. filming

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