ˈpop-shop slang.
[f. pop v.1 7 + shop n.]
A pawnbroker's shop. Also attrib.
| 1772 Town & C. Mag. 73 The Pop-shop was ready for pledges, the gin-shop was ready for the money lent upon them. 1846 Lytton Lucretia ii. xvi, I might have been wicked enough to let it go with the rest to the pop-shop. 1898 Hume Hagar iii. 54 Rosa..might pawn it,..so I sent a printed slip to all the pop-shops in London. 1919 G. B. Shaw O'Flaherty V.C. in Heartbreak House 183 She hadnt half the jewelry of Mrs Sullivan that keeps the popshop in Drumpogue. 1942 Wodehouse Money in Bank (1946) iv. 36 This makes me feel like a pawnbroker... As if you had brought it in to the old pop shop and were asking me what I could spring on it. 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry i. 22 For many families the pop-shop was a necessity. |