off-licence

Examples

• All

• And when he found himself ranging back toward the B&B, he stopped and headed for the off-license.

  Fiction book (1998)

• By the age of 15, however, a substantial minority were purchasing alcohol from off-licenses (liquor stores) or pubs.

  Academic text (2007)

• Couple of fire engines parked up by the off-license, and I think..

  Attack the Block (2011)

• Michael were always about because he could get us booze and cigs from off licence.

  Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)

• On the way out, they pick up some Guinness at the off-license, and they head for home.

  Fiction book (2000)

• In the rain, he went to the off-license and was paying for a bottle of wine when he noticed through the window that a taxi had stopped at the traffic lights.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Tom was out of tonic, so he's gone to the off-license.

  Still (2015)

• You're miles from the nearest off-licence, even if you could decuff yourself.

  Fiction book (1995)

• You can't go a hundred yards without a pick-up point for zymurgic solutions: off-licences, pubs, supermarkets, restaurants.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I stopped by the off-licence to buy a six-pack of beer for the party.

Synonyms

L

liquor store

vsoff-licence

• US

84 1.0

A shop that sells alcohol to take home

is the same licensed retail sale term

P

package store

vsoff-licence

• US

1 5.3

A shop that sells bottles of beer, wine or spirits to take home

is broader and not limited to sealed container sales

A

affy

vsoff-licence

• Slang

1 9.9

A shop that sells alcohol to take away

is the licensed official shop term rather than informal slang

How Legal

liquor license

• Formal

16 3.8

off-licence

• UK

6.4

tavern

111 3.5

speakeasy

14 9.3

shebeen

• South African

1 9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology