(chiefly Britain) The premises of a bookmaker, where people may place bets, watch horse races etc on television, and collect their winnings.

(intransitive, informal) To discuss one's work, business or profession.

A talking shop

The time for which a vehicle or machine is out of service for repair. / The time spent by a foundry or machine shop to make a custom item.

A facility that has machine tools for working with metals or other relatively hard materials, such as some polymers. Various kinds of machine shops make and repair all types of metal objects, from machine tools, dies, and molds to mass-produced parts such as screws, pistons, or gears.

(slang) A shop that sells sexual items.

A shop that sells sex toys, erotic lingerie, pornography etc.

(US) A facility where stolen motor vehicles are disassembled in order to sell the mechanical parts.

(finance, derogatory, obsolete) A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.

plural of shop stealer