shooting spree

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shooting spree

noun 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

    Similar: mass shooting

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@misc{shooting_spree_2026,
  title = {shooting spree},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shooting%20spree},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}