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LIQUOR STORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does liquor store mean?
• LIQUOR STORE (noun)
The noun LIQUOR STORE has 1 sense:
1. a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere
Familiarity information: LIQUOR STORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
liquor store; off-licence; package store
Hypernyms ("liquor store" is a kind of...):
shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)
Context examples
At a wholesale liquor store he bought two gallon-demijohns of old port, and with one in each hand boarded a Mission Street car, Martin at his heels burdened with several quart-bottles of whiskey.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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