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Definition of Slopshop
1. Noun. A store that sells cheap ready-made clothing.
Generic synonyms: Clothing Store, Haberdashery, Haberdashery Store, Mens Store
Definition of Slopshop
1. n. A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
Definition of Slopshop
1. Noun. (dated) A shop where slops, or ready-made clothes, are sold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slopshop
Literary usage of Slopshop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1830)
"Sutlers' tents ; in front of them a slopshop; soldiers, of many different uniforms
and insignia, passing backwards and forwards ; tables all occupied ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1846)
"Thus, one man's room (he has been a soldier under Napoleon, hence his particular
line of dealing) might well be styled a hero's slopshop, out of whose ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"... the first thing in course I does, was to make for old Moses' slopshop, and
search for a suit of shore-going dogs. There I was, overhauling rig after rig ..."
4. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"... between a suit turned out by a Savile Row tailor and one purchased at a Jamaica
Road slopshop, between the "Century Magazine" and a broadsheet of ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1875)
"... a tall upright man with many medals—including the Victoria Cross—on his breast,
who patrols as private policeman in front of Moses and Sons' slopshop. ..."
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