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butcher shop

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of butcher shop1

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

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I picked up fresh pork sausage from the good butcher shop in my neighborhood and folded in a couple of eggs, whisked with a splash of cream, to help it all set.

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Many people who use unprocessed beef tallow on their skin say they get it from their local butcher shops.

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He added that there used to be 11 butcher shops along a three-mile stretch of Christchurch road, but that theirs was now the last one standing.

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She then flew to Northern Ireland, where she visited a bakery and butcher shop, attended a literary event and accepted salutes at a military parade.

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On a farm north of St. Paul, Moua Yang runs the hog butcher shop he started working on with his father when he was a child.

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