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- noun Plural form of
slopshop .
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Examples
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Affairs there had become much brighter, for Mrs. Turner's work had greatly increased, her quiet, unpretending manner having won for her many kind friends, who kept her fully employed -- indeed so much that Lizzie Stevens had given up her hard labour of working for the slopshops, and now helped the widow in her lighter and more remunerative toil.
Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets Gertrude P. Dyer
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The tall multi-coloured, many-shuttered houses fronting the quays -- restaurants, _cafés_, money-changers 'bureaux, ships' chandlers, and slopshops -- looked tawdry and degraded as a clown's painted face seen by daylight.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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"She was a poor woman, who sewed for the slopshops for a living -- but their pay won't keep soul and body together."
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