ˈgin-shop
[f. gin n.2]
A dram-shop retailing chiefly gin.
| 1714 Mandeville Fab. Bees (1723) I. 340 [She] never did any thing to remedy her Wants in good earnest, but bewailing them at a Gin-shop. 1773 Johnson in Boswell 13 Apr., What is there in any of these shops, (if you except gin-shops) that can do any human being any harm? 1801 Sporting Mag. XVII. 20 The bar of a small gin-shop. 1854 Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xvii, The more ill-looking of the men..hung about on the steps of the beer-houses and gin-shops. |
Hence gin-shopper, the keeper of a gin-shop.
| 1831 Lincoln Her. 1 July 4/5, I will drag them out one by one whether publican or sinner..sugar-shopper, or gin-shopper. |