butcher shop

noun

1. a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.

Word History and Origins

Origin of butcher shop¹

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Example Sentences

He added that there used to be 11 butcher shops along a three-mile stretch of Christchurch road, but that theirs was now the last one standing.

From BBC

She then flew to Northern Ireland, where she visited a bakery and butcher shop, attended a literary event and accepted salutes at a military parade.

From New York Times

On a farm north of St. Paul, Moua Yang runs the hog butcher shop he started working on with his father when he was a child.

From Seattle Times

Next year, he and his wife Marianne will celebrate a half-century in business here, and he makes every sausage on-site with all that experience plus second-generation insight, as his parents ran a Berlin butcher shop.

From Seattle Times

The famous bacon cheeseburger that draws lines around the block at Beast & Cleaver butcher shop is now also served at its offshoot Beast & Cleaver 49th Street, inside Fair Isle Brewing in the Ballard Brewery District.

From Seattle Times