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model shop

model shop noun: a retail outlet that sells models (miniatures), or kits to make them.

Noun

model shop (plural model shops)

  1. A retail outlet that sells models (miniatures), or kits to make them.
    • You can't just walk into a model shop and buy little Tube trains, although you could for a brief period in the Fifties, when Eveready made a model Underground train, to advertise the battery that powered it. So Underground modellers work from 'scratch' - that is, they make their own stuff, or adapt.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 269

Forms of model shop

pluralmodel shops

Questions about model shop

What does model shop mean?
Model shop means a retail outlet that sells models (miniatures), or kits to make them.
What part of speech is model shop?
Model shop is a noun.
What is the plural of model shop?
The plural of model shop is model shops.

Words near model shop in the dictionary

  1. model numbers
  2. model organism
  3. model organisms
  4. model railway
  5. model railways
  6. model shop
  7. model shops
  8. model solution
  9. model solutions
  10. Model T
  11. model theory

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