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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs

Meaning of "shooting spree" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHOOTING SPREE

shooting spree  [ˈʃuːtɪŋ spriː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHOOTING SPREE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shooting spree is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHOOTING SPREE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spree killer

A spree killer is someone who kills two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders".

Definition of shooting spree in the English dictionary

The definition of shooting spree in the dictionary is a series of shootings by a mad personto go on a shooting spree to shoot a number of people.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHOOTING SPREE


agree
əˈɡriː
Capri
kəˈpriː
cree
kriː
degree
dɪˈɡriː
disagree
ˌdɪsəˈɡriː
epris
eɪˈpriː
esprit
ɛˈspriː
free
friː
gluten-free
ˈɡluːtənˌfriː
gumtree
ˈɡʌmˌtriː
hori
ˈhɔːriː
Kayseri
ˌkaɪsɛˈriː
Marie
məˈriː
pedigree
ˈpɛdɪˌɡriː
pree
priː
spree
spriː
Sri
ʃriː
three
θriː
toll-free
ˌtəʊlˈfriː
tree
triː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHOOTING SPREE

shooter
shootie
shooting
shooting box
shooting brake
shooting gallery
shooting guard
shooting incident
shooting iron
shooting lodge
shooting match
shooting party
shooting practice
shooting range
shooting script
shooting star
shooting stick
shooting war
shooting-down
shootist

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHOOTING SPREE

at the top of the tree
Bachelor of Arts degree
bachelor´s degree
bree
buying spree
Christmas tree
crime spree
family tree
feel free
for free
Group of Three
Joshua tree
killing spree
red tea tree
referee
rule of three
saree
shopping spree
spending spree
to a degree

Synonyms and antonyms of shooting spree in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shooting spree» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHOOTING SPREE

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

Translator English - Chinese

枪击
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tiroteo
570 millions of speakers

English

shooting spree
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शूटिंग होड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اطلاق نار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стрельбу
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tiroteio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শুটিং ঘোড়দৌড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fusillade
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menembak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Amoklauf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

乱射
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

촬영 난사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyiksa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Spree chụp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துப்பாக்கி சூடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शूटिंग सपाटा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çekim çılgınlığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tiro baldoria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

strzelanie Spree
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стрілянину
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fotografiere sindrofie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξεφάντωμα πυροβολισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skiet boemel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skytte spree
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skyting rangel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shooting spree

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOTING SPREE»

The term «shooting spree» is regularly used and occupies the 105.371 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOOTING SPREE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shooting spree

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QUOTES WITH «SHOOTING SPREE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shooting spree.
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William S. Burroughs
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOOTING SPREE»

Discover the use of shooting spree in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shooting spree and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The School as a Safe Haven
27 GIRL ON A SHOOTING SPREE, 1979 A San Diego girl redefined the word " fun" when she claimed she was shooting at an elementary school in that city "for fun." On the morning of January 30, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer, who lived ...
Rollin J. Watson, Robert S. Watson, 2002
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Twelve
White Mike, a seventeen-year-old prep school dropout and drug dealer, and his privileged peers spend their time partying with sex, drugs, and escalating violence in the pursuit of ever more exotic and dangerous thrills.
Nick McDonell, 2003
3
Paralegal Ethics
reconsidering the Fitness Committee's decision to reject Hale's application to the Illinois Bar. Smith's shooting spree began just hours after Hale's news conference announcing that the hearing board had denied him. After Smith's Fourth of July ...
Angela Schneeman, 2000
4
Shuffling to Ignominy: The Tragedy of Stepin Fetchit
By the time police had been alerted and were able to arrive on the scene, Donald Lambright had been on a shooting spree that lasted nearly an hour and covered 20 miles. Bullets fired from the driver's window of Lambright's blue Pontiac ...
Champ Clark, 2005
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Church Shooting Spree Leaves Five Dead In Baton Rouge
CRlME •a Church Shooting Spree Leaves Five Dead In Baton Rouge An estranged husband is accused of abducting and slaying his wife after killing four members of her family during a shooting rampage in a Louisiana church, police said.
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Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, ...
The shooting spree was ended when Whitman was rushed, shot, and killed by Austin law enforcement officers Houston McCoy and Ramiro Martinez and civilian Allen Crum. Whitman approached the clock tower with a duffel bag containing ...
Gregg Lee Carter, 2002
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School Shootings: International Research, Case Studies, and ...
Weise did not appear deterred by locked doors or flustered by the chaos going on around him (High school shooting spree leaves 10 dead, 2005). To gain access to some of the rooms, Weise kicked out the glass from the doors, stepped into ...
Nils Boeckler, Thorsten Seeger, Peter Sitzer, 2012
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More Scary Bitches!: 15 More of the Scariest Women You'll ...
Seegrist was apparently onpsychiatric medication at the time of her shooting spree. Sylvia's mother was so concerned about her daughter's psychotic behavior that shehad triedto get her committed. Doctors told Ruth Seegrist that theonly ...
William Webb, 2013
9
From Conflict to Crisis: The Danger of U.S. Actions
Shooting Spree Had Issued Several High-Profile Decisions,” ABA Journal, January 10, 2011, http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judge_killed_in_ariz. _shoot- ing_spree_had_issued_several_controversial_decis/ 426 “White ...
Jeanne M. Haskin, 2012
10
Spree Killers: The Enigma of Mass Murder
Altogether, during the whole shooting spree Kretschmer hadfired a total of 112 rounds. Kretschmer's spree cost the lives of fifteen people, including nine students, three traineeteachers, one caretaker and one carsalesman. Tim Kretschmerwas ...
Rodney Castledon, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOOTING SPREE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shooting spree is used in the context of the following news items.
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Suspected gunman behind cinema shooting spree intended to FLEE …
THE suspected gunman behind a killer shooting spree in a crowded cinema was ... believed to be behind the brutal shooting at the Grand Theatre in Louisiana, ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Sailor wounded in Tenn. shooting spree dies
A Navy petty officer wounded in the shooting rampage in Chattanooga has died, bringing the total number of victims to five, according to the Navy and the ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
3
James Holmes Found Guilty on All Counts for 2012 Shooting Spree
Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes has been found guilty of first-degree murder for killing 12 people and injuring 70 more in a 2012 spree. «Reason, Jul 15»
4
Police seek motive in deadly Arizona shooting spree
(CNN) Police in Mesa, Arizona, know some things about Ryan Elliot Giroux, accused in a string of shootings that left one man dead and five people wounded. «CNN, Mar 15»
5
Idaho gunman faces 3 murder charges in shooting spree
A gunman faces three first-degree murder charges and an attempted murder charge after a Saturday shooting spree that left three people dead and one ... «USA TODAY, Jan 15»
6
Ottawa Shooting Spree: One Suspect Killed, Another Possibly at Large
One soldier was killed Wednesday morning after at least one gunman opened fire at two locations near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. UPDATE: One ... «Gawker, Oct 14»
7
Houston Area Shooting Spree
A suspected mass killer running from police the frightening scene in a suburb of Houston Texas. Trying to escape 33 year old Ronald Lee Haskell police say he ... «ABC News, Jul 14»
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Family mourns man killed while trying to stop shooting spree
Two Las Vegas police officers rush to Wal-Mart near Nellis Boulevard and Stewart Avenue on Sunday, June 8, 2014. Two Metro police officers and a bystander ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jun 14»
9
One man killed in Seattle campus shooting spree
Two other men in their twenties suffered minor injuries after being shot by the gunman. ... This latest college shooting spree came less than a fortnight after Elliot ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 14»
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Fort Hood shooter's spree lasted 8 minutes, filled with more than 35 …
The deranged Fort Hood soldier fired more than 35 rounds during an eight-minute shooting spree that left three dead and 16 wounded before the gunman took ... «New York Daily News, Apr 14»

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