tobacco shop
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1.8
- noun
- /təˈbækoʊ ʃɑp/
- US
:
estanco
- The tobacco shop sells a variety of products, including pipes and flavored tobacco.
Examples
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A tobacco shop, a mechanic, a tailor, and the homes of a few pensioners and a widow filled out the main road.
Academic text (2017) -
Now, you'd better learn how to do this, if you're going to open a tobacco shop.
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One of the young men, whose father owned a tobacco shop, had brought on request a number of old cigar boxes.
Fiction book (1994) -
In that hamlet, there was a tobacco shop and a candy store.
Fiction book (2002) -
I had a small tobacco shop in Madras.
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Because tobacco shops displayed the cigars in their boxes with the lids up, manufacturers saw attractive inside labels as a necessity and were willing to spend considerable sums on them.
Academic text (2004) -
I stopped by the tobacco shop to buy some cigars for the weekend.
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Every Saturday, I visit the tobacco shop to pick up my favorite brand of cigarettes.
Synonyms
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6.5
A shop or person who sells cigarettes, cigars, and pipes for smoking
A shop that sells cigarettes, cigars and things for smoking
How Specialized
- NSFW
3
8.2
- US
1
1.8
- US
103
1.0
80
1.0
16
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a shop selling tobacco products' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tobacco' (dried leaves used for smoking) with 'shop' (a place where goods are sold). This noun–noun modifier+head pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Tobacco shop comes from the simple idea of a shop that sells tobacco. When smoking became popular, small stores showed leaves, pipes, and cigars in the window, so people called them tobacco shops. So it means 'a shop that sells tobacco products'.