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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. slanga 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

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Meanwhile, underground syringe exchanges and shooting galleries spawned across the country, with sterile needles, Narcan, wipes and bins at hand, all in violation of the 1986 “crackhouse statute” which outlaws premises used for illicit drug-taking.

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

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

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

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

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