shooting-gallery

  • 1Shooting gallery — or Shooting Gallery can refer to: * A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets worth various minor prizes or points towards a major prize * Shooting Gallery (film), a 2005 film about… …

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  • 2Shooting gallery — Shooting Shoot ing, a. Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting. [1913 Webster] {Shooting board} (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3shooting gallery — shooting ,gallery noun count 1. ) a place where you can practice shooting objects with a gun 2. ) INFORMAL a place where people use illegal drugs by INJECTING them …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 4shooting gallery — shooting galleries N COUNT A shooting gallery is a place where people use rifles to shoot at targets, especially in order to win prizes …

    English dictionary

  • 5shooting gallery — ► NOUN ▪ a room or fairground booth for recreational shooting at targets …

    English terms dictionary

  • 6shooting gallery — n. 1. a place, as a booth at an amusement park, for practice shooting at targets ☆ 2. Slang a place, as an apartment, where a narcotics addict can prepare and inject an illicit drug, as heroin, with equipment usually provided on the premises …

    English World dictionary

  • 7Shooting Gallery — Shooting Gallery  первый в мире коммерческий световой пистолет, созданный для приставки Magnavox Odyssey. Он определял факт попадания в светящуюся область телеэкрана. Направляя его на любой другой источник света, можно было имитировать… …

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  • 8shooting gallery — shooting .gallery n 1.) a place where people shoot guns at objects to win prizes 2.) AmE informal an empty building in a city, where people buy illegal drugs and ↑inject them …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 9shooting gallery — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms shooting gallery : singular shooting gallery plural shooting galleries 1) a place where you can practise shooting objects with a gun 2) mainly American informal a place where people use illegal drugs by… …

    English dictionary

  • 10shooting gallery — n a place where drug users gather to inject themselves. The word has been applied to open spaces, pubs and com munal flats for instance. It is an addict s pun which the police have also adopted both in Britain and the USA. Sam got his leg broken… …

    Contemporary slang