ham and beef shop

noun

A delicatessen.

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Meanings

nounham and beef shop (plural ham and beef shops)

plural ham and beef shops

  1. datedA delicatessen.

    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.

    1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 14
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