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drive-by shooting

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(Law) an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle

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drive-by shooting - shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim

shooting - killing someone by gunfire; "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

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