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drugstore

or drug store

[ druhg-stawr, -stohr ]

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noun

the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.

drugstore

/ ˈdrʌɡˌstɔː /

a shop where medical prescriptions are made up and a wide variety of goods and sometimes light meals are sold

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An Americanism dating back to 1800–10; drug ¹ + store

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A few of those community leaders invited Scopes to the drugstore, bought him a fountain drink, and convinced him to stand trial.

He was in a drugstore on a lunch break when he chanced to see a book titled The Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik.

We met there because there was a drugstore or a candy store on the corner.

“I had run out of razor blades ,and went to a drugstore, and had a really negative experience,” Katz-Mayfield told me.

This is the same street where the drugstore, in which you always waited is located.

What he did in this case was to stop in Bakersfield at a garage that had a combination drugstore and news-stand next door.

Finally he said he couldn't work anymore and was going to drive to the drugstore for something to cure indigestion.

It was a famous drugstore, and contained one of the first private telephone booths ever erected.

At the first drugstore he stopped, seeing a long-distance telephone booth inside.

Just get some money from your father and go to the drugstore for more bandages.

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