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butcher shop; meat shop
A shop that specializes in selling fresh meat. 精肉 refers to dressed meat (meat that has been cut and prepared for sale), and 店 means shop.
精肉店で牛肉を買った。
I bought beef at the butcher shop.
この精肉店のコロッケは有名だ。
The croquettes at this butcher shop are famous.
商店街の精肉店では、注文に合わせて肉を切ってくれる。
At the butcher shop in the shopping street, they cut the meat to order.
A compound of 精肉 (dressed meat; butchered meat) and 店 (shop). Traditional butcher shops in Japanese shopping streets (商店街) often also sell prepared items like コロッケ (croquettes) and メンチカツ (minced meat cutlets), which are popular take-out snacks.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 精肉店で買う: to buy at a butcher shop
- 精肉店のコロッケ: butcher shop croquettes
- 町の精肉店: the local butcher shop
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 肉屋: butcher; meat shop — more colloquial and commonly used in everyday speech
- 鮮魚店: fish shop — the equivalent for seafood
- 八百屋: greengrocer — vegetable and fruit shop in a shopping street