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n. (pet shop English)
Usage examples of "pet shops".
Maybe she'd been checking out the Brezhnev bears to see how those on sale in pet shops measured up against the ones that her bigshot hubby Hiram bred -- whether they seemed healthier, less healthy, or somehow subtly different from the Berthelot cavies.
They could scour the local pet shops with descriptions of the twins.
On his way to work Rick Deckard, as lord knew how many other people, stopped briefly to skulk about in front of one of San Francisco's larger pet shops, along animal row.
As soon as we were settled into our new home we shopped for Briney's kitten, but not in pet shops.
He would have to check through all incoming model files for the six week period, go over the present inventory, then run down the Bermuda serial numbers in a mountain of invoices covering a thirty-week period, find the pet shops and retail dealers that had taken the doubtful models, and finally survey the retail dealers to trace the models to their present owners.
He gave a wolf whistle, and Tina, who'd never seen a parrot except in exotic pet shops, was charmed.
He was a maverick of sorts, a gambler, a master of many trades: handyman, self-styled curer, hunter and provider of plant and insect specimens for local herbalists and curers and any kind of bird or mammal life for taxidermists or pet shops.
I remember there are some pet shops over on Lexington Avenue not far from here and when it gets good and dark I am going to take you out and see if we can find a cat croaker to do something about your eye.
Today was Sunday, so no pet shops were open, and Claire had been limited to the private owners advertising in the local Sunday paper.