Meanings
plural package stores
- USA retail store that sells alcoholic beverages, specifically one in which only sealed containers may be sold for consumption off the premises.
It’s not like there was any shortage of booze in Eloe. There were package stores and churches every hundred feet.
2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, pages 153–154Synonyms: packie, liquor store, off-licence, ABC store, see more at liquor store
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA retail store that sells alcoholic beverages, specifically one in which only sealed containers may be sold for consumption off the premises.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From the state laws of Connecticut and Georgia which declare that purchased liquor must be in a sealed container or removed from the premises in a bag or other package.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
package store. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/package%20store
“package store.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/package%20store. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “package store,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/package%20store.
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