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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
Larry Elder

Meaning of "drive-by shooting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRIVE-BY SHOOTING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRIVE-BY SHOOTING

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Drive-By shooting is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DRIVE-BY SHOOTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drive-by shooting

A drive-by shooting is a form of hit-and-run tactic, a personal attack carried out by an individual or individuals from a moving vehicle, often without use of headlights to avoid being noticed. It often results in bystanders being shot instead of, or as well as, the intended target. The objective is to overwhelm the target by a sudden, massive amount of firepower without attention to accuracy. Two of the most famous drive-by shootings were the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur on September 7, 1996, and The Notorious B.I.G. on March 9, 1997. The tactic of drive-by shooting originated when assailants would ride up to their targets on horseback, shoot them with wheellock pistols and then ride off before they could be apprehended. Some of the first gun control laws were developed to combat these shootings.

Definition of drive-by shooting in the English dictionary

The definition of drive-by shooting in the dictionary is an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle Sometimes shortened to: drive-by.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRIVE-BY SHOOTING

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drive-by download
drive-in
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driveability
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WORDS THAT END LIKE DRIVE-BY SHOOTING

absentee voting
accounting
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e-voting
footing
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Synonyms and antonyms of drive-by shooting in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «drive-by shooting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRIVE-BY SHOOTING

Find out the translation of drive-by shooting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drive-by shooting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drive-by shooting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偷渡式拍摄
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tiroteo
570 millions of speakers

English

drive-by shooting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

द्वारा ड्राइव शूटिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اطلاق نار من سيارة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

привод электро съемки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tiroteio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ড্রাইভ দ্বারা শুটিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fusillade
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memandu dengan menembak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Drive-by- Shooting
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ドライブバイシューティング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

드라이브 바이 총격 사건
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drive-by shooting
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lái xe - bằng cách bắn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டிரைவ் மூலம் படப்பிடிப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ड्राइव्ह बाय शूटिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sürüş atışları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

drive-by shooting
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drive-by filmowania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

привод електро зйомки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

drive-by de fotografiere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

drive-by γυρίσματα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ry - deur skiet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drive-by skjutning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drive- by shooting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drive-by shooting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRIVE-BY SHOOTING»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRIVE-BY SHOOTING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drive-by shooting

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Famous quotes and sentences with the word drive-by shooting.
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Larry Elder
To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRIVE-BY SHOOTING»

Discover the use of drive-by shooting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drive-by shooting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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When Too Old to Hunt... Try Drive-by Shooting
This book attempts to capture stunning images of many of America's most beautiful scenes, many that are remote and took decades to locate. Hopefully, it will make you want to seek them out and visit them for yourself.
J. Craig Stephens, 2011
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Gangbangs and Drive-Bys: Grounded Culture and Juvenile Gang ...
A middle-class youth who was subject to a near-miss in a drive-by shooting would be given the account that he was in the wrong place. He would be given advice to avoid those situations by avoiding the neighborhoods where gangs exist.
William B. Sanders
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Practical Shooting Scene Investigation: The Investigation ...
The drive-by shooting, where a bullet and cartridge case are spewed from a moving vehicle, presents a myriad of problems to the crime scene investigator, as well as the shooting reconstructionist. Often the only scene left is the victim (dead or ...
Dean H. Garrison, Jr., 2003
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The Death Penalty: An American Citizen's Guide to ...
Drive-By-Shooting Murder At the height of the Prohibition Era, traffickers in illegal alcohol were famous for taking the life of competitors by firing machine guns and pistols from vehicles. This brazen public method of handling disputes lost its ...
Louis J. Palmer, 1998
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Jet
Three members of superstar Hammer's entourage were injured in a drive-by shooting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The three men were not seriously injured, officials said. Hammer, his band and crew were participating in a benefit Softball  ...
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The Poems of an Anointed Breakthrough
8/1/97 Exodus 2:1 It's a drive-by shooting, and no one saw a thing; It's a drive-by shooting, with the killer representing a gang. It's a drive-by shooting, and the kids are outside playing; It's a drive-by shooting, and in the street a body is lying.
Yolanda Atkins Cotton, 2004
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Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving
Dedel (2007) describes drive-by shootings in detail: A drive-by shooting refers to an incident when someone fires a gun from a vehicle at another vehicle, a person , a structure, or another stationary object. Many drive-by shootings involve ...
Linda Miller, Kären Hess, Christine Orthmann, 2013
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Policing Gangs in America
In 1998, the police department collected data on 196 drive-by shootings, sixty-six drive-by shooting victims, twenty- seven non-drive-by shooting victims, and twenty-two gang members who had been killed. Of the twenty-two gang members  ...
Charles M. Katz, Vincent J. Webb, 2006
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Occupational Health Guide to Violence in the Workplace
That incident occurred over five months prior to the drive-by shooting at issue. Johnson did not display a gun during that verbal incident, and the male employee was fired for harassment, thereby removing any further threat of such an incident ...
Thomas D. Schneid, 1998
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A Complete Guide to Premises Security Litigation
In Hill- crest, a restaurant customer was struck by two bullets and paralyzed from the waist down in a drive-by shooting committed by the husband of a waitress. The customer brought a premises liability action against the owner. The trial court  ...
Alan Kaminsky, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRIVE-BY SHOOTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drive-by shooting is used in the context of the following news items.
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UPDATE: 5-year-old drive-by shooting victim to be taken off life …
TOPEKA, Kan. — The young victim of a Monday drive-by shooting remains on life support at a Topeka hospital while her family seeks answers ... «KAKE, Jul 15»
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30 gunshots fired in drive-by shooting
Three men are in custody Wednesday morning after police said they were suspected of peppering a home with up to 30 gunshots and ... «Chron.com, Jul 15»
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1 injured in Wednesday afternoon drive-by shooting
Police say the victim, 27-year-old Ronald Liggins, went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after someone opened fire from a car ... «KMTV, Jul 15»
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Two men sent to prison for drive-by shooting
Two men were sent to prison today for a drive-by shooting in which shots were fired into an East Side house last year. No one was injured in ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
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Palmer police file homicide attempt charges in May drive-by shooting
The driver and the gunman in a May 22 drive-by shooting in Palmer Township were charged Wednesday with attempted homicide, township ... «Allentown Morning Call, Jul 15»
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Police: Drive-by shooting occurred on Blair Street
SIOUX CITY | Shell casings were found in the street after a drive-by shooting that occurred around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on the 600 block of Blair ... «Sioux City Journal, Jul 15»
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Medical Examiner IDs victim of deadly drive-by shooting on …
Veron Black, 20, of Maple Heights was killed in a drive-by shooting on near the corner of East 163rd Street and Sorrento Avenue early Tuesday ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
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Police search for gunman in North Miami Beach drive-by shooting
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police are searching for a shooter who opened fire on a car, causing the vehicle to crash into a nearby ... «7Online WSVN-TV, Jul 15»
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Three wounded in drive-by shooting in North Charleston
The shots were fired around 10 p.m. on Charlene Drive near Louise Drive, according to North Charleston police. The area is north of ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jul 15»
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My KRON 4: Man, 18, on life support after drive-by
BAY POINT (KRON) — An 18-year-old Bay Point man is on life support Wednesday night after he was shot in a drive-by shooting, and the ... «KRON4.com, Jul 15»

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