ham and beef shop
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editham and beef shop (plural ham and beef shops)
- (dated) A delicatessen.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 14:
- The night air was passably cool and he strolled through the town at a measured pace, killing time till bedtime. The garage was lighted up, the greengrocer's, the ham and beef shop.