mass shooting

[mas shoot-ing]

noun

1. a single incident involving the shooting with one or more firearms of a number of people, but more than two and typically a large number, especially when the victims are random.

   There's news of a mass shooting at the stadium, with two fatalities and 25 injured.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mass shooting¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Over the last few years, handguns retrofitted with switches were used in several prominent shootings in California, including the 2022 mass shooting in downtown Sacramento that left six people dead and a dozen injured.

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Jones was ordered to make the payout in 2022 for claiming the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School - which killed 20 schoolchildren and six educators - was a hoax.

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A mass shooting at a crowded bar in the southern US state of South Carolina has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said.

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Four people have been killed and 12 others injured, four critically, after a mass shooting in the US state of Mississippi.

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Roske also expressed concerns that Kavanaugh would vote to loosen gun regulations in another case, and was upset about a mass shooting earlier that year at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

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