Usually means: Quick attack from moving vehicle.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word drive-by:

General (16 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: Dictionary.com
  11. drive-by: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Drive-by: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. drive-by: FreeDictionary.org
  14. drive-by: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drive-by, drive-by: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. drive-by: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a crime, etc.: carried out from a moving vehicle.
adjective:  (figuratively) Done in a cursory or superficial manner with little regard for the issues involved; careless, offhand.
noun:  A crime, such as a shooting, carried out from a moving vehicle.

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