Meaning of off-licence | Babel Free

Definitions

A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises.

Ireland, UK

Equivalents

Examples

“Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end⟳ of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; hence, as nobody could legally drink⟳ on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board⟳ about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form⟳ a ledge.”

“After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get⟳ tomato sauce for love⟳ nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.”

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