shooting gallery
nounDefinition of shooting gallery
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 public daylong celebration included activities that included rubber band shooting gallery, a crayon-coloring station and living history demonstrations. — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, "The Alamo celebrates Davy Crockett’s 233rd birthday anniversary," 17 Aug. 2019 All ages can try a variety of carnival games, including Kiddieland Kats, ring toss, go fish, shooting gallery, football frenzy, and more. — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, "Elmhurst Family Fun Fair offers amusement park theme," 28 June 2019 The organization operates a museum, circus sideshow and shooting gallery whose proceeds help fund the $200,000 parade along with support from the city and sponsors. — Scottie Andrew And Nadeem Muaddi, CNN, "Mermaids are taking over New York this weekend. Here's why," 22 June 2019 And, by the absence of powered armor, makes the movie version of Starship Troopers a particularly pointless shooting gallery sort of exercise. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "An artist on creating the retro art for a new edition of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers," 9 Dec. 2018 Beer gardens, dance halls, dime museums and shooting galleries proliferated, and love, whatever your inclination, was for sale. — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, "‘Devil’s Mile’ Review: Dance Halls, Derelicts and Condos," 24 Aug. 2018 Irate that injection drug users were turning BART station hallways into shooting galleries. — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, "Voters tune out rather than turn out for tame San Francisco mayor’s race," 5 June 2018 Another setting shows the exterior of shooting gallery where heroin users might typically go to use. — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, "Virtual reality could be a powerful tool to fight addiction, Tulane dean says," 24 Jan. 2018 Past events have included a squirt gun boat race, ghost bowling, pumpkin golf and a Nerf shooting gallery. — Alaska Dispatch News, "Your guide to Halloween events around Anchorage this week," 27 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'shooting gallery.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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