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bottle shop en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand) A liquor store.
    • I visited a bottle shop recently to buy some wine and beer for a dinner party. 2003, Andrew Griffiths, 101 Ways to Really Satisfy Your Customers: How to Keep Your Customers and Attract New Ones, page 85:
    • The former were catered for both by liquor stores and, to a lesser extent, by the bottle shops of hotels. 1998, Sherry Saggers, Dennis Gray, Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, page 108:
    • I head towards David Jones in the city, which has a bottle shop that is easily robbed of its expensive and unusual spirits. 2007, Laurence Stanway, Awoken by an Angel, unnumbered page:

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off-licence