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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Sprinkled across the map are shooting galleries, gliding challenges, treasure hunts, and other mini-games.
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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
At a shooting gallery off one of the dining rooms, the couple paid 75 hryvnias — about $2 — so that Ms. Kerimova could shoot 10 plastic bullets at a paper target stamped with an image of Vladimir V. Putin, the president of Russia.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 June 2023
Don’t overlook the shooting gallery in Frontierland or the carnival games at Pixar Pier in California Adventure.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
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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
At a shooting gallery off one of the dining rooms, the couple paid 75 hryvnias — about $2 — so that Ms. Kerimova could shoot 10 plastic bullets at a paper target stamped with an image of Vladimir V. Putin, the president of Russia.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 June 2023
Don’t overlook the shooting gallery in Frontierland or the carnival games at Pixar Pier in California Adventure.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
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“Shooting gallery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shooting%20gallery. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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