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shooting gallery
noun
a place where addicts congregate to buy and inject drugs US, 1951- We have information you’re running a regular shooting gallery up here. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 78, 1953
- We’d drive in with Bull for groceries and Hassel’d disappear. We’d have to go looking for him in every shooting gallery in town. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 158, 1957
- What really tore it was they turned the place into a regular shooting gallery–blowing pot and joy popping all over the place. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 199, 1961
- A twenty-eight-year-old-man named Teddy operated a Bronx “shooting gallery”[.] — Harry J. Anslinger (US Commissioner of Narcotics), The Murderers, p. 180, 1961
- He must be a connection. Got a shooting gallery’s all I knows. — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 38, 1965
- When a junkie has a hotel room, the word spreads fast. All his friends and their friends stream in and the place turns into a shooting gallery. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 75, 1966
- She was good insurance that he could use the apartment as a shooting gallery while Franchot was at work[.] — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 138, 1968
- Old Weeping fell dead outside a shooting gallery in Saint Paul. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 79, 1969
- He might rip off one of these little shooting galleries somewhere but he doesn’t have the nerve to screw around with McDaniel’s stuff. — Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, p. 58, 1974
- Wow–all these people cutting in and out–this ain’t no shooting gallery. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 144, 1980
- We flew from one gig to the next in this 727 that was outfitted like a kind of low-profile shooting gallery/whorehouse. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, pp. 10–11, 1986
- “This picture takes place in back alleys and shooting galleries, Roger,” Bama said. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 200, 1987
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