Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
drive-by \drive-by\ n. accomplished while driving past in a vehicle; as, a drive-by shooting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a crime etc English) carried out from a moving vehicle 2 done quickly or in a cursory manner alt. 1 (context of a crime etc English) carried out from a moving vehicle 2 done quickly or in a cursory manner n. a crime, such as a shooting, carried out from a moving vehicle
Wikipedia
A drive-by is a form of hit-and-run tactic, a personal attack carried out by an individual or individuals from a moving vehicle.
Drive-by may also refer to:
- Drive By (band), an American music group
- "Drive By" (song), a 2012 song by Train
- "Drive By" (Flight of the Conchords), the seventh episode of the television series Flight of the Conchords
- Drive-by download - kind of web threats with automated downloading and installing of trojan after visiting infected web page
- Drive-By, an American hip-hop duo, consisting of Anybody Killa and Blaze Ya Dead Homie; see Pony Down (Prelude)
- "Driveby", a song by Neil Young from Sleeps with Angels
- "Drive-by", a dialogue, heard on The Inbetweeners Soundtrack
Usage examples of "drive-by".
On the left were the spirits of generations past who had showed up too early to enjoy the benefits of nanotechnology and (not explicitly shown, but somewhat ghoulishly implied) croaked from obsolete causes such as cancer, scurvy, boiler explosions, derailments, drive-by shootings, pogroms, blitzkriegs, mine shaft collapses, ethnic cleansing, meltdowns, running with scissors, eating Drano, heating a cold house with charcoal briquets, and being gored by oxen.
Had Jalal not vetoed the idea, a couple of the Blood Crips had intended to let her "make her meat" with an AKM in a drive-by on the Warriors of the Aryan World Alliance.
I remember standing there at the bottom of the trailer steps, waving as they drove off toward the awful thing Garin's sister said was waiting for them at the end of their trip a senseless drive-by shooting.
Things started being that way when Bill's friend, Joe Calabrese, called and said my brother and his wife and the two older kids had been killed, shotgunned in a drive-by.
In the face of the escalating violence in her school, she resigned herself to wearing a bulletproof vest under her artist smocks and even brought in some paintball guns to try to gain the pupils' interest but the latter only backfired into several incidents of drive-by abstract expressionism, and soon she received death threats for not allowing students to fashion crack pipes in ceramics class.
Nobody messed with Smoke and his road dogs, and they went after bigger prizes than just ripping off people and ATM machines and doing drive-by shootings for fun.
They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles, Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bun-gee jumping.
In rural Montana, she wouldn't have to worry about drive-by gang shootings, carjackings, ATM robberies that frequently involved casual murder, drug dealers peddling crack cocaine on every corner, follow-home stickups--or child molesters who slipped off freeways, cruised residential neighborhods, trolled for prey, and then disappeared with their Wlch into the anonymous urban sprawl.
When Judge Roberts had been murdered he hadn't been walking down the street and been a victim of a drive-by shooting, a for-kicks murder.
What effect that drive-by shooting had had on the Syrians was unknown, but the interior of the Mercedes was now filled with burned gunpowder smoke.
And my friend who was coming out of the warehouse asked me what was it, because we thought it was a drive-by shooting….
Already a nine-year veteran - he'd begun as a gang kid in Los Angeles whose basic common sense had overcome his ineffectual education - he'd decided that there was no future in the Bandidos when a close friend had died in a drive-by shooting whose purpose he'd never quite figured out.
In this case it was a drive-by shooting, in broad daylight, in the Castro district, with three dozen eager and contradictory witnesses to sort out.
I remember standing there at the bottom of the trailer steps, waving as they drove off toward the awful thing Garin's sister said was waiting for them at the end of their trip - a senseless drive-by shooting.
Killed in the drive-by shooting were William Garin, 42, June Garin, 40, and two of their three children: John Garin, 12, and Mary Lou Garin, 10.