butcher shop
a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
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How to use butcher shop in a sentence
His family ran a butcher shop in a part of town so tough that their specialty was broken leg of lamb.
But the close season for deer sat lightly on men in a region three days' journey from a butcher shop.
The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. Sinclair"I smelled 'em cookin' bologna in the back room of Hire's butcher shop," remarked the bringer of the pennygrabs.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon WilsonThey might have been bought at a butcher shop; then again, they might have been stolen.
The Crimson Flash | Roy J. SnellHe ust t' keep a butcher shop down t' Peory and he was so strong he could throw down a steer.
The Fotygraft Album | Frank Wing
Just at the moment I came out of the butcher-shop, a man emerged from the corner grocery that stood alongside.
The Iron Heel | Jack London
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