butcher shop

noun

1. a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.

Word History and Origins

Origin of butcher shop¹

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Example Sentences

There’s a look in his eye like a hungry mutt staring at a butcher shop window: pathetic and moony and flummoxed by how to get what he wants.

From Los Angeles Times

He sent tens of thousands of dollars to Mexico: to fund improvements on his parents’ house, to buy machines for the family butcher shop.

From Los Angeles Times

I picked up fresh pork sausage from the good butcher shop in my neighborhood and folded in a couple of eggs, whisked with a splash of cream, to help it all set.

From Salon

Many people who use unprocessed beef tallow on their skin say they get it from their local butcher shops.

From Salon

He added that there used to be 11 butcher shops along a three-mile stretch of Christchurch road, but that theirs was now the last one standing.

From BBC