What is "pawnshop"

Usage examples of "pawnshop".

Clapham that has escaped my lamentable improvidence, but there are one or two things--the iron-bound chest, the bureau with a broken hinge, and the large air pump--distinctly pawnable if only you can contrive to get them to a pawnshop.

Fast Cash Pawnshop for two hundred thousand dollars cash, about a hundred and fifty thousand more than it was worth.

She stopped at the pawnshop on her way in, placing a sign on the door, delaying her opening hour until eleven.

Six blocks from her pawnshop, a brand-new Safeway store paved the way for a new upscale neighborhood.

The Club always made money on the resale of the property purchased for the advance man, like the pawnshop Fala bought.

She stared at the map for the longest time, studying the little red star, reading and rereading the directions that took her from the door of her pawnshop to the door of his six-bedroom house in a protected cul de sac.

She had forgotten to lock the front door of the pawnshop, but she did so now.

Beside the fact that she ran a pawnshop, which was reputed to be also a fence, there were only two or three other facts that were known to her neighbors.

It is not a desirable trait in one connected with a pawnshop, that is also reputed to be a fence, to show surprise or curiosity.

They descended the next flight and came into the back room behind the pawnshop, which the Duchess used as a combination of sitting-room, office, and storeroom.

Her young figure stiffened in angered pride, and her mind was gathering hot phrases to fling at him when the door from the pawnshop began to creak open.

Detective Gavegan of the Central Office stepping from the pawnshop and blocking the door with his big figure.

He turned out the light in the back room, and called to Old Isaac to darken the pawnshop proper.

He had calculated correctly and unmolested he gained the pawnshop door, passed the solemn-eyed, incurious Isaac, and entered the room behind.

To the police mind, now that Larry was aware he was known to be in New York, the pawnshop would obviously be the last place in which he would seek refuge or through which he would have dealings.