Thesaurus:liquor store

Thesaurus

liquor store

English

Noun

Sense: a shop that sells alcoholic beverages to be drunk off the premises

Synonyms

• dramshop (US)
• bottle shop
• bottle-o (Australia, New Zealand, slang)
• bottle store (New Zealand, South Africa)
• bottlo (Australia, slang)
• grogshop
• liquor store (US)
• off-licence (Ireland, Britain)
• offy (Britain, slang)
• package store
• packie (US, slang)
• party store (US, Michigan, slang)
• pony keg (US, Cincinnati, slang)

Hyponyms

• ginshop (archaic, colloquial)
• rumshop
• wine shop

Hypernyms

• building    [⇒ thesaurus]
• business
• enterprise    [⇒ thesaurus]
• establishment
• shop

Various

• off-sale

See also

• Thesaurus:beverage
• Thesaurus:pub

Further reading

• “liquor store” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.