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shooting gallery
noun
- a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
- Slang. a place where drug addicts can buy and inject themselves with narcotic drugs.
shooting gallery
noun
- an area, often enclosed, designed for target practice, shooting, etc
- slang.a house where heroin addicts inject themselves
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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.
From Washington Post
Insurgent sniper fire turned the fetid, 120-degree streets into a hellish shooting gallery.
From The Daily Beast
The journalist, in company with Bertrand, went to a shooting gallery, where he tried his hand at the pistol.
From Project Gutenberg
In describing it I will be describing what an ideal shooting gallery should be like.
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And after a while they were on the great steps leading to the shooting gallery.
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A few minutes later they were under the roof of the shooting gallery.
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There is a sensational realism which is lacking in the ordinary shooting gallery.
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