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shooting party

noun as in firing squad

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After the McKellar twins' guilty pleas last month, the court heard that on the day of the incident they had dinner and had been drinking with a shooting party at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.

From BBC

They were at a shooting party; they're shooting grouse, they're shooting pheasant. it felt like a kind of obvious, coded way of saying that.

From Salon

Even Victaria Saxton, the 6-foot-2 forward known for her inside game, joined in the shooting party with her first collegiate 3-pointer in three career attempts just before halftime for a 30-point lead.

Police said the bridge, which was supported by scaffolding, collapsed as 11 people in a "shooting party" were travelling "on private land".

From BBC

There sits the 1872 jockey’s scale used by King Edward VII to make sure that his shooting party guests — who were commanded to sit on it as they arrived and again when they left — gained weight after eating the 12- to 14-course meals typically served in the household.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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