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butcher shop
noun
- a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of butcher shop1
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
His family ran a butcher shop in a part of town so tough that their specialty was broken leg of lamb.
From The Daily Beast
But the close season for deer sat lightly on men in a region three days' journey from a butcher shop.
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"I smelled 'em cookin' bologna in the back room of Hire's butcher shop," remarked the bringer of the pennygrabs.
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They might have been bought at a butcher shop; then again, they might have been stolen.
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He ust t' keep a butcher shop down t' Peory and he was so strong he could throw down a steer.
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Just at the moment I came out of the butcher-shop, a man emerged from the corner grocery that stood alongside.
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