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    [Noun]  | "shop" | \ ˈshäp \


    1: a handicraft establishment : atelier

    2: a building or room stocked with merchandise for sale : store

    3: a small retail establishment or a department in a large one offering a specified line of goods or services

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa booth; akin to Old High German scopf shed;

    [Noun]  | "shop steward" 


    1: a union member elected as the union representative of a shop or department in dealings with the management

    Origin: 1904 ;

    [Noun]  | "shop floor" 


    1: the area where products are made in a factory; also : the workers in a factory

    [Noun]  | "shop front" 


    1: the front side of a store

    2: a room or group of rooms in the front part of a store building

    [Verb]  | "shop" 


    1: to examine goods or services with intent to buy

    2: to hunt through a market in search of the best buy

    3: to make a search : hunt

    Origin: 1806 ;

    [Adjective]  | "shop-soiled" | \ ˈshäp-ˌsȯi(-ə)ld \


    1: shopworn

    Origin: 1898 ;

    [Adjective]  | "shop-bought" 


    1: bought at a store or shop and not made at home

    [Phrasal verb]  | "shop around" 


    1: to look for the most suitable item or service for the lowest price

    2: to try to get a company to publish or produce (something)

    [Idiom]  | "shop the store" 


    1: to look throughout a store for something

    [Idiom]  | "shop the stores" 


    1: to look throughout stores for something

    [Verb]  | "shop" 


    1: as in turn in, rat (on);



    [Verb]  | "shop (for)" 


    1: to go in search of;


      * e.g., " ... engineers are still shopping around for solutions to several critical flaws in the aircraft's design "



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    [Verb]  | "shop (around)" 


    1: as in comparison shop;


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    [Verb]  | "comparison shop" 


    1: as in shop (around);


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    [Verb]  | "set up" 


    1: to arrange something in a certain spot or position;


      * e.g., " ... set up tables in the living room for the party "




    2: to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of;


      * e.g., " ... set up a scholarship fund for deserving students from the inner city "




    3: to fix in an upright position;


      * e.g., " ... set up a post from which to hang the sign "



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    [Noun]  | "shop" 


    1: an establishment where goods are sold to consumers;


      * e.g., " ... the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state "



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    2: a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods;


      * e.g., " ... a machine shop "



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    3: the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field;


      * e.g., " ... the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop "



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    [Noun]  | "closed shop" 


    [Noun]  | "coffee shop" 


    1: as in coffeehouse, tea shop;


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    [Noun]  | "tea shop" 


    1: as in coffee shop, estaminet;


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    [Noun]  | "thrift shop" 


    1: as in department store, chain store;


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     [ "shop" ]

    1:  What a drug dealer metaphorically open's up every morning when he get's his first phone call.

      * e.g.,  ...  Dealers Friend: "You should 'shut up shop' for a few days and come snowboarding with me." 

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    2:  The place the police take you when they close down YOUR 'shop'.

      * e.g.,  ... Dealer: "Sorry man, bizznaz is bizznaz. Can't leave my client's hanging." 

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    1: Informal slang verb for reporting someone to the police.

      * e.g.,  ... If he doesn't stop harassing me, I'm gonna shop him. 

     [ "shop" ]

    1: Slang word for weed. Comes from the shopping carts used to get to Platform 9 3/4 from Harry Potter.

      * e.g.,  ... Victoria: Do you have shop? Ayana: Yea I was just about to go shopping 

     [ "shop" ]

    1: To alter a picture with PhotoSHOP or Paint SHOP Pro, normally in a ridiculous way and adding Internet characters and a catchy line.

      * e.g.,  ... Hey, take this pic and shop it into cockmongler. 

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    1: verb. Slang for Photoshopping. To produce a forged image that appears to be a real photograph by using Photoshop or similar image-editing software. Typically used to refer to the creation of a "celebrity fake", where a celebrity's picture is modified to appear naked and/or engaging in sexual/embarrasing behavior.

      * e.g.,  ... "Did you see that picture of Paris Hilton eating a banana? Somebody should shop that!" "Sarah Palin got shopped - they put her head on a rifle-shooting bikini babe." 

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    1: To thoroughly beat some one down.

      * e.g.,  ... he totally went shop on him 

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    1: To resell the products of a legitimately obtained prescription medication

      * e.g.,  ... Yeah, he got some 5/500 percs after he got his wisdom teeth out but he never needed them so he's shopping them. 

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    1: Black and white patrol car. Cops carry all their gear in the cars so they're one stop shops

      * e.g.,  ... The shop rolled around the corner and stopped in front of Turnbull's Market. The two unis climbed out, hands on their batons. There was trouble in the air. 

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    1: To "borrow" permanently from a sibling. Derived from the appearance of a sibling strolling through your closet or CD/DVD collection, looking at all the merchandise, placing selected items into their virtual shopping cart, saying "hey, can I borrow this shirt, your Abbey Road CD, and The Matrix?", and never returning any of the items, causing you to eventually steal back all your stuff next Thanksgiving.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hey hon, let's watch The Matrix tonight." 

     [ "shop" ]

    1: a really easy class in which the teacher doesn't notice anything so you can do your homework and cheat on tests with out being bothered

      * e.g.,  ... pat! close up shop the headmaster is coming! 

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