policy shop

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A gambling place where punters could bet on the numbers which would be drawn in lotteries. US,historical,obsolete
    — 1856, New York (State) Legislature: Senate, Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 2, page 212, In lottery and policy shops do they not generally stick up an exchange sign, and hold out “stationery sold here,” so that persons who did not understand it would suppose they sold stationery?

词形变化

policy shops plural

词源

From policy (“illegal lottery”) + shop.
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