drugstore
or drug store
[druhg-stawr, -stohr]
- the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
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Origin of drugstore
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Contemporary Examples
A few of those community leaders invited Scopes to the drugstore, bought him a fountain drink, and convinced him to stand trial.
He was in a drugstore on a lunch break when he chanced to see a book titled The Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik.
We met there because there was a drugstore or a candy store on the corner.
“I had run out of razor blades ,and went to a drugstore, and had a really negative experience,” Katz-Mayfield told me.
This is the same street where the drugstore, in which you always waited is located.
Historical Examples
She was ill, and called with a prescription at a drugstore in Burlington, N. J.
Whittier-landSamuel T. Pickard
Wilson started on, but stopped to look into the drugstore window.
The Web of the Golden SpiderFrederick Orin Bartlett
"They do seem to be," admitted Estelle, looking for the drugstore.
The Moving Picture Girls in War PlaysLaura Lee Hope
Whirled by the blow, he staggered against the drugstore window.
Laramie Holds the RangeFrank H. Spearman
That was the stuff you were buying yesterday in the drugstore?
The Corner House Girls at SchoolGrace Brooks Hill
drugstore
- US and Canadian a shop where medical prescriptions are made up and a wide variety of goods and sometimes light meals are sold
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