Shop /(?)/

Shop

imp.
  1. imp. of Shape. Shaped. obs.

Shop

n.
  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.
  2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
    A tailor called me in his shop.
  3. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
  4. A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; (Slang)
  5. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
  6. the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. [Colloq.]

Phrases & Compounds
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.

Shop

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Shopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping

  1. To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
    He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping.