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shopsoiled

shopsoiled is the alternative form of shop-soiled.

Meaning of shop-soiled

Adjective

shop-soiled (comparative more shop-soiled, superlative most shop-soiled)

  1. Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.
    • All Tuesday week afternoon she was hunting to match that chenille but at last she found what she wanted at Clery's summer sales, the very it, slightly shopsoiled but you would never notice1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
  2. (figuratively) Not fresh or new.

Forms of shopsoiled

comparativemore shopsoiled
superlativemost shopsoiled

Questions about shopsoiled

What is shopsoiled the alternative form of?
Shopsoiled is the alternative form of shop-soiled.

Words near shopsoiled in the dictionary

  1. shoproom
  2. shops
  3. shops around
  4. shopsful
  5. shopska salad
  6. shopsoiled
  7. shopstead
  8. shopsteaded
  9. shopsteader
  10. shopsteaders
  11. shopsteading

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