Noun: bottle shop
Usage: Austral, NZ (=liquor store)
Usage: Austral, NZ (=liquor store)
- A store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere
"They stopped at the bottle shop to buy wine for dinner";
- package store [N. Amer], liquor store [N. Amer], off-licence [Brit], grogshop [Austral, informal], offie [Brit, informal], offy [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: bottle shops
Encyclopedia: Bottle shop