school shooting

English

Etymology

From school +‎ shooting. First use appears c. 1903 in the Savannah Morning News.

Noun

school shooting (plural school shootings)

  1. (chiefly US, crime) A mass shooting which occurs in a school or university, targeting their students and staff; typically in an indiscriminate manner.
    Coordinate term: mall shooting
    • 1999 April 22, Erin Emery, Steve Lipsher, Ricky Young, “Video, poems foreshadowed day of disaster”, in The Denver Post‎[1], archived from the original on 18 March 2016:
      The video that Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, both seniors, produced in their video production class has been turned over to authorities, said Veik, a day after Harris and Klebold - members of the Trench Coat Mafia - committed the most heinous school shooting in U.S. history and then apparently killed themselves.

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