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shooting gallery

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Leisure, Drug culture
ˈshooting ˌgallery noun [countable]  1. DLa place where people shoot guns at objects to win prizes 〔可赢取奖品的〕射击场,打靶场2. American English informalMDD an empty building in a city, where people buy illegal drugs and inject them 毒品注射场所〔指城市中人们购买和注射毒品的闲置建筑物〕
Examples from the Corpus
shooting gallerySo you'd slip into a shooting gallery to test the dope.Only the top half of her body was visible, and she resembled a moving target on a shooting gallery.Adding to the noise and jollity were a shooting gallery and coconut shy.And they're on hand to lend a hand in the air pistol shooting gallery.
ˈshooting ˌgallery nounChineseSyllable
where a place shoot Corpus guns at objects people


shooting gallery
ˈshooting ˌgallery noun [countable]
1. a place where people shoot guns at objects to win prizes
2. American English informal an empty building in a city, where people buy illegal drugs and inject them


shooting galleryBrE /ˈʃuːtɪŋ ɡæləri/ 🔊NAmE /ˈʃuːtɪŋ ɡæləri/ 🔊 nouna place where people shoot guns at objects for practice or to win prizes 射击场;打靶场(especially NAmE) a place where people go to take drugs 吸毒场所;注射毒品场所