bottle shop

plural bottle shops

1. AustraliaNew ZealandA liquor store.

   I visited a bottle shop recently to buy some wine and beer for a dinner party.

   2003, Andrew Griffiths, 101 Ways to Really Satisfy Your Customers: How to Keep Your Customers and Attract New Ones, page 85

   2 more examples

   The former were catered for both by liquor stores and, to a lesser extent, by the bottle shops of hotels.

   1998, Sherry Saggers, Dennis Gray, Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, page 108

   I head towards David Jones in the city, which has a bottle shop that is easily robbed of its expensive and unusual spirits.

   2007, Laurence Stanway, Awoken by an Angel, unnumbered page

   Synonyms: off-licence