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. 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 See all Example Sentences for shooting gallery 

Word History

First Known Use

1836, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of shooting gallery was in 1836

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“Shooting gallery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shooting%20gallery. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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