butchershop
English
Alternative forms
- butcher shop, butcher-shop
Noun
butchershop (plural butchershops)
- (chiefly US) A store that sells meat.
- Synonyms: (UK) butcher's shop, butcher's
- (World War I– World War II military slang) A military hospital or its division where surgeries upon the wounded are performed.[1]
Translations
store that sells meat
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References
- Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech, volume 47, number 1/2, page 27
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