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n. - A store that sells cheap ready-made clothing.

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  • And then that smug-faced, smooth-tongued, dirty-looking chaplain, with his second-hand shirt collars and slopshop morality -- was it whiskey or brandy that his breath...
  • He kept a stinking slopshop in Bishopsgate Street, and a still more stinking schism-shop in
  • At the first slopshop I encountered in the suburbs of the town, I got a carpet-bag and a clerical-looking suit.
  • So that as soon as my comrade was decently array'd at the first slopshop we came to, 'twas high time to seek an inn.
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