Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
body shop \body shop\ n. an establishment where the frame or outer body of a vehicle may be repaired or painted; -- contrasted with a mechanic, who repairs the motor and other working components.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A workshop in which damage to the bodywork of cars is repaired.
Wikipedia
Body shop or bodyshop may refer to:
- An automobile repair shop specialising in bodywork repairs
- The Body Shop, a chain of cosmetics stores
- Body shopping, a type of IT outsourcing
Usage examples of "body shop".
I knew when I had given him the preliminary fiber report last week he would start hitting every car wash and body shop in the city.
The body shop next door was still standing, but my building had been torn down and replaced with a used-car lot.
He's wearing a pair of old brown cords and a Body Shop T-shirt depicting something green, a lizard or a tree or a vegetable or something.
Dan had only seen his daughter Megan once, accidentally, in the Body Shop in Islington.
Because the car was in the body shop, Justine had to ask for a lift in Dorcas's baby-blue Cadillac.
Her father was a partner in a not overly successful body shop, but compared with us—.
I had no intention of wasting my few hours in a body shop getting my eye fixed.
Thursday afternoon the lowlife had his vintage Caddie in a body shop getting it repainted robin's egg blue.
About then, Cyril and his brother decided to start their own business, an auto repair and body shop.
The repair and body shop that had belonged to Bernie and Cy Fodor.
If I could just get through the night, tomorrow I'd take the Cherokee to Al at the body shop and see if he could do an instant repair.
Parker told the body shop owner what he wanted -- the rear doors and the right side door sealed permanently, and a lock on the outside of the left side door which would be guaranteed to keep people in.
They had only paused for a moment in the body shop, so Donal could find an earpiece for Sam.