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popshop

popshop is the alternative form 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

Forms of popshop

pluralpopshops

Questions about popshop

What is popshop the alternative form of?
Popshop is the alternative form of pop shop.

Words near popshop in the dictionary

  1. pops the cherry
  2. pops the question
  3. pops up
  4. pops wood
  5. pops.
  6. popshop
  7. popshops
  8. popsicle
  9. popsicles
  10. popsie
  11. popsies

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