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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

Of course, this is very dangerous thinking, regardless of how straight Jack Reacher’s aim may be in the moral universe's shooting gallery.

From Salon

Rxd3, and White’s pawns will prove sitting ducks in a shooting gallery for Black’s rook.

It’s so steep and narrow in places that falling rock and ice can turn the canyon into a “shooting gallery,” she said.

So was he going to try hitting a Putin target at the shooting gallery?

As the last Ukrainian soldiers were driven into an ever smaller area near the western entrance of the city, the Russian military turned what was once a thriving residential neighborhood into a shooting gallery.

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