"shop" Definition

Definitions for the word "shop" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
1 place for the retail sale of goods or services. 2 act of going shopping (did a big shop). 3 place for manufacture or repair (engineering-shop). 4 one''s profession etc. As a subject of conversation (talk shop). 5 colloq.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
a house. “How are they all at your SHOP?” is a common question among small tradesmen.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
3. slang
the House of Commons. The only instance we have met with of the use of this word in literature occurs in Mr. Trollope’s _Framley Parsonage:_— “‘If we are merely to do as we are bid, and have no voice of our own, I don’t see what’s the good of our going to the SHOP at all,’ said Mr. Sowerby.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
4. slang
to discharge a shopman. In military slang, to SHOP an officer is to put him under arrest in the guard-room. In pugilistic slang, to punish a man severely is “to knock him all over the SHOP,” _i.e._, the ring, the place in which the work is done.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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