shooting gallery
noun
1
: a usually covered range equipped with targets for practice with firearms
2
slang
: a place where one can obtain narcotics and shoot up
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The crowd-pleasing rally of slice and dice, topspin and dropshots are a mere cameo in a shooting gallery.
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Tim Ellis, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Most activations cost two coins, but some like the shooting gallery cost up to four, meaning that the most things anyone could play in a day caps out at five.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
Sprinkled across the map are shooting galleries, gliding challenges, treasure hunts, and other mini-games.
—PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
When these lawmakers declined to approve further aid to Ukraine starting in October—coincidentally, around the same time the Russians attacked Avdiivka—the guns the 110th Mechanized Brigade was counting on to turn Avdiivka’s flanks into a shooting gallery began to fall silent.
—David Axe, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
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Tim Ellis, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Most activations cost two coins, but some like the shooting gallery cost up to four, meaning that the most things anyone could play in a day caps out at five.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
Sprinkled across the map are shooting galleries, gliding challenges, treasure hunts, and other mini-games.
—PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
When these lawmakers declined to approve further aid to Ukraine starting in October—coincidentally, around the same time the Russians attacked Avdiivka—the guns the 110th Mechanized Brigade was counting on to turn Avdiivka’s flanks into a shooting gallery began to fall silent.
—David Axe, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
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“Shooting gallery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shooting%20gallery. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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