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    shop
    [SHäp]
    noun
    shop (noun) · shops (plural noun)
    1. a building or part of a building where goods or services are sold; a store:
      "a card shop" · "a barber shop"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        informal
        an act of going shopping:
        "she slogged her way around the supermarket doing the weekly shop"
    2. a place where things are manufactured or repaired; a workshop:
      "an auto repair shop"
      • a room or department in a factory where a particular stage of production is carried out:
        "the machine shop"
      • short for shop class.
        "I got an A in shop last year"
    verb
    shop (verb) · shops (third person present) · shopped (past tense) · shopped (past participle) · shopping (present participle)
    1. visit one or more stores or websites to buy goods:
      "she shopped for groceries twice a week" · "don't buy a plastic carrier bag every time you go shopping" · "sometimes it's more convenient to shop online" · "take a trip to downtown San Diego to shop the upscale stores of Horton Plaza"
      • (shop around)
        look for the best available price or rate for something:
        "they shopped around for cheaper food"
    2. BRITISH ENGLISH
      informal
      inform on (someone):
      "a concerned member of the public had shopped him—wrongly—for accepting monetary reward"
    3. informal
      alter (a photographic image) digitally using Photoshop image-editing software:
      "saying this picture was shopped was the way her lawyers attempted damage control"
    Origin
    Middle English: of West Germanic origin; related to German Schopf ‘porch’ and English dialect shippon ‘cattle shed’. The verb is first recorded (mid 16th century) in the sense ‘imprison’ (from an obsolete slang use of the noun for ‘prison’), hence shop.
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    verb
    1. visit one or more stores or websites to buy goods:
      go shopping
      do the shopping
      buy what one needs/wants
      buy things
      go to the shops
      stock up on
      get in supplies of
      look to buy
      • inform on (someone):
        inform on/against
        tell tales on
        be disloyal to
        be unfaithful to
        break one's promise to
        break faith with
        stab in the back
        put the finger on
        squeal on
        snitch on
        peach on
        sing about
        sell down the river
        grass on
        split on
        fink on
        drop a/the dime on
        pimp on
        put someone's pot on
       
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