body shop

noun

: a shop where automotive bodies are made or repaired

Examples of body shop in a Sentence

My car is at the body shop having the dent in the door fixed.
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Before the exhibit, both the ring and medal had been displayed in a glass case at a cousin’s auto body shop near Honolulu. ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026 The funding will go toward the second phase of the project, which includes bus storage, offices for 51 employees and training space, along with a bus wash, fueling and body shop on the 38-acre site. Virginia Barreda, Des Moines Register, 26 Feb. 2026 To get to campus, parents must shepherd their children through a concrete labyrinth, past auto body shops and steel manufacturers. Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026 During that meeting, which court documents allege took place at an auto body shop in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, Ratte and Singh agreed to haul cocaine from Southern California into Canada at a flat rate of $220,000 a load. Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for body shop

Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of body shop was in 1906

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“Body shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20shop. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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