shooting gallery

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shooting gallery

noun shooting galleries

  1. A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
  2. figuratively Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)
  3. slang A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.

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noun carnival game

DeutschSchießbude
Русскийтир tir

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@misc{shooting_gallery_2026,
  title = {shooting gallery},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shooting%20gallery},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}