BUTCHER SHOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butcher shop mean? 

• BUTCHER SHOP (noun)
  The noun BUTCHER SHOP has 1 sense:

1. a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold

  Familiarity information: BUTCHER SHOP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTCHER SHOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

butcher shop; meat market

Hypernyms ("butcher shop" is a kind of...):

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

 Context examples 

He even carried them in his pockets, and reviewed them at odd moments on the street, or while waiting in butcher shop or grocery to be served.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now Irvine was a man of impulse, a poet. He got off the train at the next station, bought a piece of meat at a butcher shop, and captured the vagrant on the outskirts of the town.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)