mass shooting

[ mas shoot-ing ]
/ ˈmæs ˈʃut ɪŋ /

noun

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.

Origin of mass shooting

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby mass shooting

mass peristalsis, mass production, mass psychogenic illness, mass psychology, mass ratio, mass shooting, mass society, mass sociogenic illness, mass spectrograph, mass spectrometer, mass spectroscope