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ˈdrug-store orig. U.S. and chiefly N. Amer.
Also drugstore, drug store.
[f. drug n.1 + store n. 12 a.]
A pharmacy or chemist's shop, often also dealing extensively or mainly in other articles, as toilet requisites, stationery, magazines and newspapers, light refreshments, etc. Also attrib., esp. as drug-store cowboy, a braggart, loafer, or good-for-nothing; a person who is not a cowboy but is dressed like one.
1810Washington (D.C.) Chron. 17 Nov. 2/2 (Advt.), Cash Drug Store. 1819H. McMurtrie Sketches of Louisville 137 There are..in Louisville..three drug stores. 1859Brit. Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Dec. 2/5 (Advt.), Drugstore Government street, between Yates and Johnson. 1871Cincinnati Commercial 30 Aug. 3/2 A gentleman..stopped at a corner drug store and asked for a glass of soda water. 1883Sweet & Knox Through Texas xv. 230, I felt a sort of drug-store taste in my mouth. 1889[see hypo n.2]. 1903N.Y. Even. Post 24 Sept. 8 It hardly pays to keep the [soda] fountains going in the drugstores. 1908Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 3/1, I took them to a chemist's or I beg pardon: a drug-store. 1925College Humor Feb. 57/1 (heading) With the Drug Store Cowboys. 1931W. A. McAdoo Crowded Years iii. 34, I gave him fifty cents to buy some medicine for me at a drugstore. 1932E. Waugh Black Mischief iv. 150 Bunting strung..across the Boulevard Amurath, from Levantine café to Hindu drug store. 1935C. W. Thurlow Craig Paraguayan Interlude xxi. 247, I have seen men carry guns this way; they were generally new-comers and quickly became objects of derision. ‘Drug⁓store cowboys’, they are called. 1936M. de la Roche Whiteoak Harvest xix. 219 Almost every day they telephoned to the drug store for a pint of delicious ice-cream. 1957P. Frank Seven Days to Never iii. 102 She married..a marijuana-smoking drugstore cowboy. 1965A. Nicol Truly Married Woman i. 2 He got down the new bottle of patent medicine which one of his friends who worked in a drug store had recommended to him. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 51 (Advt.), Pharmacist manager for busy downtown drug store. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 24 Jan. 13/4 There is provision for a small drugstore selling coffee, books and records. |