Off-licence

Quick meaning: Off-licence is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland) A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland) A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises.

Example Sentences

After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.

Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form a ledge.

Word Forms

• off-licences
• off-license

Synonyms for off-licence

Depending on context, synonyms include offy, beer-off.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include afters, bottlo, bottle-o, duty-free, wineshop, bottleshop.

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