shoppy talk
1Shoppy — Shop py, a. 1. Abounding with shops. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to shops, or one s own shop or business; as, shoppy talk. [Colloq.] Mrs. Gaskell. [1913 Webster] …
2shoppy — adjective a) Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon. When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men. b) Of the kind or quality expected from a shop. A novel of clerical life… …
3shop — n. & v. n. 1 a building, room, etc., for the retail sale of goods or services (chemist s shop; betting shop). 2 a place in which manufacture or repairing is done; a workshop (engineering shop). 3 a profession, trade, business, etc., esp. as a… …
