Knock-shop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Knock-shop is a noun meaning (informal) A shop that does bodywork on motor vehicles.
Meaning
(informal) A shop that does bodywork on motor vehicles.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of knocking shop.
Example Sentences
You may be completely uninsured, and so be tempted to take your car into an affordable backyard knock-shop.
Prue's mind raced. "You mean, Harry Allway has a house at Ulladulla?" "More of a weekend knock-shop, from what I hear," sneered the old salt.
The other two doors lead God only knows where but Misty's knock-shop is just around the corner and our barman Adam tells us: "We get a few men coming in who don't want a drink."
Wits is voyeur to the underbelly of the city; like a madam in a knock-shop, she watches equivocally the mess of city garbage tangled erotically with roadside gambling and sunglass-snatching
Word Forms
- knock-shops
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chop shop, shop, backshop, gunshop, knockdown, blackshop.
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