package store
nounEtymology From the state laws of Connecticut and Georgia which declare that purchased liquor must be in a sealed container or removed from the premises in a bag or other package.
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US A retail store that sells alcoholic beverages, specifically one in which only sealed containers may be sold for consumption off the premises.
- It’s not like there was any shortage of booze in Eloe. There were package stores and churches every hundred feet.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, pages 153–154:
- Related terms
- packaged goods, brown bag, off-sale, off-trade