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butcher shop
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noun
a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
Origin of butcher shop
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
Words nearby butcher shop
butcher linen, butcherly, butcher paper, butcher's, butcher's-broom, butcher shop, butcher's saw, butchery, butch haircut, butchy, bute
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