What is "shooting gallery"

Shooting \Shoot"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting. Shooting board (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true. Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season. --Prof. Wilson. Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms. Shooting iron, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.] Shooting star.

1. (Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, -- called also falling star.

   Note: Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids.

2. (Bot.) The American cowslip ( Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip.

   Shooting stick (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase.
   --Hansard.

n. 1 A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes. 2 (context figuratively sports English) Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal) 3 A room where heroin users shoot heroin.

1. n. a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin

2. an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice [syn: shooting range]

A shooting gallery may refer to:

Shooting Gallery (a.k.a. Pool Hall Prophets) is a 2005 film directed by Keoni Waxman starring Freddie Prinze, Jr.. The plot consists of a young hustler (Prinze) who meets his match in a veteran pool player and small-time gangster ( Ving Rhames).

Shooting Gallery was a hard rock band featuring, among others, the former Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy, Dave Tregunna (also of Sham 69, The Lords of the New Church) and Paul Garisto from The Psychedelic Furs. The band toured in the United States as an opening act for Kiss on their North American club tour in 1992 and released one album, titled Shooting Gallery, that same year.

Shooting Gallery is a television series on the Outdoor Channel hosted by Elle Alexander, Michael Bane, and Katie Rowe. The series deals with sharpshooting and target practice.