active shooter

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˌæk.tɪv ˈʃuːtɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person actively engaged in a shooting spree. US
    — In most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see active, shooter.
    — Although I had been an active shooter since I was thirteen as a young twenty-five year old^([sic]) police officer I was convinced by a Coast Guard firearms instructor to abstain from shooting a live round for six months in order to rid myself of a badly reconditioned motor response.

词形变化

active shooters plural

词源

The sense “individual engaged in a shooting spree” was popularized in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre (1999).
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