op-shop

noun

1. informal,  short for opportunity shop

Example Sentences

“In a workplace that feels as if it is the natural home of shoulder pads, wearing an op-shop treasure gives me a thrill of subtle subversion and calls me back to myself.”

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“As a woman, it also means something not to conform to in what are ordinarily very male-dominated standards of formal wear. So I regularly wear the op-shop finds that make me happiest on speaking engagements, out in the community, and in the House – it means I get to feel like ‘me’ while being an MP.”

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Ros Hewitt, who runs Cobargo’s op-shop, was escorted by a police officer down the road to Bermagui after spending the early hours of the morning defending her home with neighbours.

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“It was just wrong. Danielle and Johnny worked their rings out up there at the showground. They’re not lazy, they’re different. John Feral is one of those people who will walk past the op-shop and drop $20 on the counter and say ‘here you are, here’s a donation’.

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I found my own copy of Purple Rain in a church op-shop and played it until it went smooth.

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