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.]
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.
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. &fist; 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.
Shop (?), obs. imp. of Shape. Shaped. Chaucer.
Hear it pronounced