Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) a shop that sells alcoholic beverages to be drunk off the premises
WordNet
n. a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere [syn: package store, off-licence]
Wikipedia
A liquor store is a retail shop that sells prepackaged alcoholic beverages — typically in bottles — intended to be consumed off the store's premises. Depending on region and local idiom, they may also be called bottle store, off licence, bottle shop, bottle-o, package store (in Boston, called a packie), ABC store, state store, or other similar terms. In Michigan they are known as "Party Store". Many states and jurisdictions have an alcohol monopoly.
Usage examples of "liquor store".
He started the car, turned it in the middle of the block, and shot back up Arguello Boulevard, turned east on that and pulled up in front of a liquor store with a red neon sign.
He held up a liquor store, got away clean and saw that he'd dropped his Afro comb at the scene.
Jack was eighteen, had a fake ID that got him served at the liquor store, and considered himself the lord of the local scene.
In truth, a pack of cigarettes did make them drive by a bit more than they would have normally and a policeman's spotlight is most reassuring to liquor store and gas station proprietors in the ghetto.
I drove down to the liquor store and bought a fifth of vodka and a gallon of grapefruit soda.
At the liquor store he bought a hundred and ninety-three dollars' worth of everything in sight: gallons of vodka and bourbon and scotch.
I especially regret the people I hurt when I was a policeman who just got in my way when I was feeling mean and the Christmas guys and the liquor store man and his son.
At the door I remembered there was no fizzwater in the house, so I sent her back to the liquor store three blocks away, and came in alone.
She had collapsed on Zach's bed, thinking she would just rest for a few minutes, then get up and go to the corner liquor store for a flask of rotgut.
It contained a bottle of Amsterdam Liquor Store bourbon, two empty glasses with ice, and a glass containing, no doubt, vodka-and-red-wine.
A watch like the one taken from the liquor store clerk during the robbery has turned up at his shop.