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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



... exquisite turf surround the Casino, and under it, at the foot of the cliff, is a large pigeon-shooting gallery. Entrance, 5frs. Well-constructed carriage-drives and footpaths ramify in all directions, up the hill to the Corniche road, and along the coast either to Menton or to Nice by the magnificent coast-road ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... Captain nor the crew dared oppose its opinions or wishes; in fact, the Alley thought of running down to Zanzibar and taking a whack at the lions before "Bwana Tumbo" even saw them. We don't like to brag, but one of our members could, with one eye shut, hit any button on the metal man's coat in the shooting gallery, and with both shut could bring down a wildebeeste. The mission of the Alley and its fate now lie in the "womb of time," and we must not hustle its destiny but ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne
... that turban up and put it on your head. Hurry now, or we shall have the police or someone coming to inquire about the shooting gallery." ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest
... caravanserais. The house itself, more than three hundred years old, is of dark red brick with facings of stone, long since worn by wind and weather. The windows are enormous, and would appear abnormal in any other city but this. The Hotel of the Old Shooting gallery stands on the Toornoifeld and the unobservant may pass by without distinguishing it from the private houses on either side. This, indeed, is not so much a house of hasty rest for the passing traveler as it is a halting-place ...
— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman
... a rusty old ducking-cage among the lumber up at the town-hall; and some fellows had fetched this down, with the poles and chain, and planted it on the edge of the Town Quay, between the American Shooting Gallery and the World-Renowned Swing Boats. To this they dragged ...
— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... before I had gone a block. Fast as I was, Ned was faster. As I turned the corner I saw him open the door of Greenback's store and walk in. I screamed brakes in behind him and arrived just in time to have a gallery seat. A shooting gallery ...
— Arm of the Law • Harry Harrison
... piano plays "Over There" and the shooting gallery rifles pop too insistently for a moment. Dutch contemplates a plug of fresh tobacco. Then he resumes. This time a more intimate tale—the story of his romance—a weird, grotesque amour with a gaudy ...
— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht


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


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