drive-by shooting

1. 1.

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

   Broadershooting

Questions about drive-by shooting

What does drive-by shooting mean?

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

Is drive-by shooting a common word?

drive-by shooting 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.