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Talk shop   /tɔk ʃɑp/   Listen
noun
Shop  n.  
1.
A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. "From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter."
2.
A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. "A tailor called me in his shop."
3.
A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
4.
A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), Any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
5.
Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. (Slang, Chiefly Eng.)
6.
The group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. (Colloq.) Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.
To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: Store; warehouse. See Store.





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"Talk shop" Quotes from Famous Books



... to me like them reasons could be spoke personal to me. Suppose you step outside and we talk shop?" ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... the drawback, and the groans it caused from Wilmet, Edgar, and Fulbert: the rest decidedly rejoiced. And Mr. Underwood privately confided the objection to his friend, observing merrily that they would bind themselves by a promise not to talk shop throughout the expedition. ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... office (built by himself in the back garden), grave men and true, pending the supper hour, would smoke and sip spirits-and-water, and talk shop; formally at first, and with much politeness. But gradually, feeling their way, as it were, they would relax into social unbuttonment, and drop the "Mister" before each other's names (to be resumed next morning), and indulge in lively professional chaff, which ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al
... "We won't talk shop," she said gently. "It isn't good for you. Don't think about such things any ...
— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory
... "We always talk shop, in some form or other," said Mrs. March. "My husband never tires of it. A good many of the contributors come to us, ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... nothing but talk shop," says the general practitioner. "What possible interest can the ...
— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle
... out of it. It's a rich man's game. And at that, there's no fun in it unless you risk more than you can afford to lose. Well, let's not talk shop. You're an artist, Mr. Corthell. What do you ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... any row. Honestly I'd like to have old Lawrence here for a bit, I'm not rotting now. He had almost four years of it—almost as long as I had. I'll guarantee it put a mark on him. It scarred us all. It'll amuse me to dine him and Val together, and make them talk shop, our own old shop, and see what the war's done for each of us: three retired veterans, that's what we shall be, putting our legs under the same mahogany: three old comrades in arms." He gave his strange, jarring laugh. "Wonder which of us is ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde


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