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LIQUOR STORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquor store mean? 

LIQUOR STORE (noun)
  The noun LIQUOR STORE has 1 sense:

1. a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhereplay

  Familiarity information: LIQUOR STORE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIQUOR STORE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

liquor store; off-licence; package store

Hypernyms ("liquor store" is a kind of...):

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)


 Context examples 


At a wholesale liquor store he bought two gallon-demijohns of old port, and with one in each hand boarded a Mission Street car, Martin at his heels burdened with several quart-bottles of whiskey.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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