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Definition of "shooting gallery" []

  • An enclosed target range for practice or competition with firearms. (noun)
  • Slang A place where illegal drugs may be obtained, prepared, and taken by injection, often with equipment provided on the premises. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "shooting gallery" in a sentence
  • "The hard, descending turns that best defeated a SAM robbed pilots of height and energy, sucking them ever more deeply into the shooting gallery of AAA and smallarms that abounded in Route Pack VI."
  • "In the city that was strange to all of us, frightened police officials led the marching column, not, as arranged, to our quarters, a shooting gallery situated on the periphery of Coburg but to the Hofbräuhauskeller, near the center of the city."