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bottle shop

bottle shop noun: a liquor store.

Noun

bottle shop (plural bottle shops)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A liquor store.
    • The former were catered for both by liquor stores and, to a lesser extent, by the bottle shops of hotels.1998, Sherry Saggers, Dennis Gray, Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, page 108
    • I visited a bottle shop recently to buy some wine and beer for a dinner party.2003, Andrew Griffiths, 101 Ways to Really Satisfy Your Customers: How to Keep Your Customers and Attract New Ones, page 85
    Synonyms:
    off-licence

Synonyms of bottle shop

Forms of bottle shop

pluralbottle shops

Questions about bottle shop

What does bottle shop mean?
Bottle shop means a liquor store.
What part of speech is bottle shop?
Bottle shop is a noun.
What is the plural of bottle shop?
The plural of bottle shop is bottle shops.

Words near bottle shop in the dictionary

  1. bottle sedge
  2. bottle sedges
  3. bottle service
  4. bottle share
  5. bottle shares
  6. bottle shop
  7. bottle shops
  8. bottle show
  9. bottle shows
  10. bottle sling
  11. bottle slings

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