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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Not bad for five weeks at a shooting gallery, the gunman said.
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Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Mechanically, most encounters are just a series of shooting galleries, which doesn’t really play to Battlefield’s strengths.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Earth still lives inside a shooting gallery, with thousands of objects—totaling about 48.5 tons per year, according to NASA—entering the atmosphere.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 June 2025
But even as their city becomes a shooting gallery, many local Ukrainians are refusing to leave.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
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Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Mechanically, most encounters are just a series of shooting galleries, which doesn’t really play to Battlefield’s strengths.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Earth still lives inside a shooting gallery, with thousands of objects—totaling about 48.5 tons per year, according to NASA—entering the atmosphere.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 June 2025
But even as their city becomes a shooting gallery, many local Ukrainians are refusing to leave.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
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“Shooting gallery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shooting%20gallery. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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