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pop shops

pop shops is the plural of pop shop.

Meaning of pop shop

Noun (1)

pop shop (plural pop shops)

  1. Synonym of malt shop.
    • Meet me at the car hop, or at the pop shop1962, “Pretty Little Baby”, in Don Stirling, Bill Nauman (lyrics), Connie Francis Sings Second Hand Love & Other Hits, performed by Connie Francis
    Synonyms:
    malt shop

Noun (2)

pop shop (plural pop shops)

  1. (slang) A pawnshop.
    • [S]he has often refused a guinea from a Flagellant, when the next hour she has been obliged to send her watch to the pop shop to get a dinner […].1789, Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, London: H. Ranger, page 92

Questions about pop shops

What is pop shops the plural of?
Pop shops is the plural of pop shop.

Words near pop shops in the dictionary

  1. pop rivets
  2. pop rock
  3. pop shield
  4. pop shields
  5. pop shop
  6. pop shops
  7. pop shot
  8. pop shots
  9. pop shove-it
  10. pop shove-its
  11. pop singer

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