shooting gallery

a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.

Slang. a place where drug addicts can buy and inject themselves with narcotic drugs.

Origin of shooting gallery

First recorded in 1830–40

But I have been practising at the shooting-gallery for two hours.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 |Elbert Hubbard
The woman blazes with jewels like a Strand shooting-gallery with lights.

Miss Million's Maid |Bertha Ruck
After three months the gunmaker no longer accompanied Frank to his shooting-gallery.

Through Russian Snows |G. A Henty
Colonel Wildman's dining-room was once Byron's shooting-gallery, and the original refectory of the monks.

Passages From the English Notebooks, Volume 2 |Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shooting-gallery again, one and four-pence; Fat Woman a penny, one and fivepence.

Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories |Juliana Horatio Ewing

shooting gallery

an area, often enclosed, designed for target practice, shooting, etc

slang a house where heroin addicts inject themselves