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Shooting gallery   /ʃˈutɪŋ gˈæləri/   Listen
Shooting gallery

noun
1.
A building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin.
2.
An enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice.  Synonym: shooting range.





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"Shooting gallery" Quotes from Famous Books



... this, I led the way still onward. We traveled on horseback,—often amid solitudes. I first astonished my wife by occasionally displaying on the game my precision with the rifle. (I had spent scores of hours at a shooting gallery in St. Louis.) I persuaded her to try a few shots. (I had provided a beautiful light rifle for her use.) Ambition to shoot well soon possessed her. By degrees, our open-air life gave her blood a bound which no secret grief could counteract. The excitement ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


Words linked to "Shooting gallery" :   edifice, firing range, building, colloquialism, target range


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