drugstore †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shop in which prescriptions are filled and patent medicines sold, often having a great variety of other goods for sale.

Quotations

1859

[Advert.] W. Zelner, Surgical and Mechanical DENTIST Drugstore Government street, between Yates and Johnson

1915

It is unlawful for an injured person who has been carried into a drug store to drink liquor, even if ordered by a physician.

1966

"This wasn't done by the same guys who knocked over the corner drug store," he added.