Shooting Gallery (Noun)
Meaning 1
An enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Synonyms
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Meaning 2
A building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The city's health department set up a mobile clinic outside the notorious shooting gallery to provide medical care to the addicts who frequented the location.
- Police raided the abandoned warehouse, which had become a popular shooting gallery for heroin users in the neighborhood.
- The local residents complained about the shooting gallery on the corner, citing the discarded needles and trash that littered the sidewalk.
- Social workers visited the shooting gallery regularly, distributing clean needles and offering counseling services to the addicts who gathered there.
- After years of neglect, the city finally boarded up the shooting gallery, a crumbling building that had become a magnet for crime and addiction.