shootings
SaySHOO-tingzUS/ˈʃutɪŋz/UK/ˈʃuːtɪŋz/
- 1Plural of shooting.
Investigators linked the recent shootings to a single suspect.
The neighborhood had gone a full year without any shootings.
Note
The plural follows only the countable uses of shooting. Most often it counts separate incidents of gunfire, as in a string of shootings. It can also count districts where game may be taken with firearms, or darts of sudden pain. The sport of firing a gun is a mass noun and does not pluralize. Counting filming sessions as shootings is a Philippine usage.
shootings is a form of shooting
shooting, noun: An occasion on which a gun or other weapon is fired, especially one in which someone is wounded or killed. Full entry
- Forms
- shootingshootings plural
- Spelling
- shooting → shootings: add -s
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