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shooting gallery

  1. a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  2. Slang. a place where drug addicts can buy and inject themselves with narcotic drugs.


shooting gallery

  1. an area, often enclosed, designed for target practice, shooting, etc
  2. slang.
    a house where heroin addicts inject themselves
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shooting gallery1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

You don’t feel like the defenseless target in a virus shooting gallery.

Insurgent sniper fire turned the fetid, 120-degree streets into a hellish shooting gallery.

The journalist, in company with Bertrand, went to a shooting gallery, where he tried his hand at the pistol.

In describing it I will be describing what an ideal shooting gallery should be like.

And after a while they were on the great steps leading to the shooting gallery.

A few minutes later they were under the roof of the shooting gallery.

There is a sensational realism which is lacking in the ordinary shooting gallery.

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