Usually means: Passing quickly while shooting firearms.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. drive-by: Merriam-Webster
  2. drive-by: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drive-by: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drive-by, drive-by: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Drive-By, Drive-by, drive-by: Wordnik
  6. drive-by: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. drive-by: Wiktionary
  8. drive-by: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. drive-by: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. drive-by, drive by: Dictionary.com
  11. drive-by: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Drive By (Flight of the Conchords), Drive By (Train song), Drive By (album), Drive By (band), Drive By (song), Drive-by, Drive-by (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. drive-by: FreeDictionary.org
  14. drive-by: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. drive by: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drive by, drive-by: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drive by (n.): Cats

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drive-by: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Drive by)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of drive-by [A crime, such as a shooting, carried out from a moving vehicle.]

Similar:
driveby, drive-thru, car-jacking, passerby, highway-robbery, by-running, shoot-out, pileup, bye-blow, by-way, more...

Types:
drive-thru, drive-in, drive-by, more...

Phrases:
drive by shooting, drive by killing, drive by vc, Drive by wire, drive by download, more...

Adjectives:
drive-by, driveby, drive-in, twoc, drive-through, standing, trucked, speeding, tight, frank, carryon



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Similar:
driveby, drive-thru, car-jacking, passerby, highway-robbery, by-running, shoot-out, pileup, bye-blow, by-way, more...

Types:
drive-thru, drive-in, drive-by, more...

Phrases:
drive by shooting, drive by killing, drive by vc, Drive by wire, drive by download, drive by deal, drive by downloads, They Drive by Night, more...

Adjectives:
drive-by, driveby, drive-in, twoc, drive-through, standing, trucked, speeding, tight, frank, carryon



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