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Definition of spree killer in English: spree killernoun A person who kills a number of people at one particular time and location in a frenzied, random, and apparently unpremeditated way. the last three spree killers in Britain all held legal gun licenses Example sentencesExamples - The sniper terrorizing suburban Washington, D.C. has alternately been referred to in the press as a serial killer and a spree killer.
- Well, I want to say, Larry, first of all, this is what makes him a serial killer and not a spree killer, first of all.
- A spree killer, as I say, is usually directional, and he may go through an area just shooting people, anybody who he can find as he is moving along and doesn't really know the area at all.
- He has interviewed spree killers, he is chairman of the Forensic Panel and developer of the depravity scale, an effort to provide a standard forensic definition of evil.
- He's a spree killer, a mass killer or serial killer.
Derivatives noun Beginning with a spree killing, the Lakota attacked settlers along the Minnesota River and murdered several hundred whites. Example sentencesExamples - In the aftermath of a spree killing at an Australian diner, forensic psychologist Dr. Jane Halifax is called in to profile the murderer.
- But, here, I don't see this as a spree killing, Larry.
- Whether there will be another spree killing in Britain is a matter of chance.
- Two weeks ago, when it first started, it had all the makings of a classic spree killing.
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