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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps because people who drink alcohol have a wobbly gait??”)

Noun

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wobble shop (plural wobble shops)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A shop that sells beer without a licence.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary