Shop, n. [OE. shoppe,
schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall,
booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, G.
schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG.
scopf.] 1. A building or an apartment in
which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
From shop to shop
Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
The polished counter.
Cowper.
2. A building in which mechanics or artisans
work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
A tailor called me in his shop.
Shak.
☞ Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as,
shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or
shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
To smell of the shop, to indicate too
distinctively one's occupation or profession. -- To talk
shop, to make one's business the topic of social
conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's
employment. [Colloq.]
Syn. -- Store; warehouse. See Store.
Shop, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Shopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Shopping.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing
goods.
He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go
shopping.
Byron.Shop (?), n. 1. A
person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject
of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- generally in
deprecation.
2. A place where any industry is carried on;
as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), any of
the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as
of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
3. Any place of resort, as one's house, a
restaurant, etc. [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
Shop (?), obs. imp. of
Shape. Shaped. Chaucer.