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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shop \Shop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shopped}; p. pr & vb n. {Shopping}.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. --Byron. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shop \Shop\, obs. imp. of {Shape}. Shaped. --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shop \Shop\, n. [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG schup a shed, G. schoppen schuppen a shed, a coachhouse OHG. scopf.] 1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. --Cowper. 2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work as a shoe shop; a car shop. A tailor called me in his shop. --Shak. Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc {To smell of the shop}, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession. {To talk shop}, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloq.] Syn: Store; warehouse. See {Store}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shop \Shop\, n. 1. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- generally in deprecation. 2. A place where any industry is carried on as a chemist's shop; also (Slang), any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc 3. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc [Slang, Chiefly Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shop n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: {store}] 2: small establishment where handcrafts or manufacturing are done [syn: {workshop}] v 1: do one's shopping 2: do one's shopping at do business with be a customer or client of [syn: {patronize}, {shop at}, {buy at}, {frequent}, {sponsor}] [ant: {boycott}] 3: shop around not necessarily buying [syn: {browse}] 4: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: {denounce}, {tell on}, {betray}, {give away}, {rat}, {grass}, {peach}, {shit}, {snitch}, {stag}]
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