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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



... 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
... 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
... 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


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