drive-by killing

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   homicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile

   Broadershooting

Questions about drive-by killing

What does drive-by killing mean?

drive-by killing means "homicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile".

Is drive-by killing a common word?

drive-by killing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.