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drugstore

or drug store

[ druhg-stawr, -stohr ]

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noun

the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.

drugstore

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noun

a shop where medical prescriptions are made up and a wide variety of goods and sometimes light meals are sold

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Word History and Origins

Origin of drugstore¹

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10; drug ¹ + store

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You can go fancy or pick up a pack at the drugstore.

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Beauty, a drugstore makeup brand popular among younger shoppers, makes about 80% of its makeup in and around China.

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Four years later, thoughtfully but perhaps unhelpfully, a federal judge decreed that 28 bottles of champagne seized from a drugstore not far from the Soldiers’ Home be donated to the old fellows.

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Many others — painters of Pontiacs, drugstore facades or gumball machines — were dismissed as frivolous.

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Customers have started to realize that sodas cost less at a grocery store than a drugstore, he said.

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