(US, military, law enforcement) A person actively engaged in a shooting spree.
In most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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