英和和英

語源

From Columbine.

動詞

pull a Columbine (三人称単数 現在形 pulling a Columbine, 現在分詞 pulling a Columbine, 過去形および過去分詞形 pulled a Columbine)

1. To shoot people at a school.
   • 2011, C.M. Dabbah, The House of Shades, page v:

     Granted, I'm not exactly grabbing an ax and going to town or pulling a “Columbine” but the idea of engaging in such activities has crossed my twisted little mind and plagued my black little heart in dreams only.

   • 2014 February 26, Selim Algar, “Teacher who threatened to pull a 'Columbine' sues NYPD”, in New York Post:

     First, she threatened to pull a “Columbine” on her own school.

   • 2015, “Teen allegedly threatens to 'pull a Columbine' on a local school”, in Boston 25 News‎^[1], Massachusetts:

     Teen allegedly threatens to "pull a Columbine" on a local school

   • 2019 April 18, Valerie Strauss, “School shootings didn’t start in 1999 at Columbine. Here’s why that disaster became a blueprint for other killers and created the ‘Columbine generation'”, in The Washington Post:

     A different shooter talked of how he was going to “pull a Columbine.”