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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Created by former Simpsons writers and real-life couple Julie Thacker Scully and Mike Scully, the comedy stars Allen as Matt Parker, a widower who runs an auto body shop. Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Dec. 2025 Fire in auto body shop But just minutes after crews arrived at the staging area for Saturday's parade, another call came in. Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025 Ahead of debuting the Hilux Champ in Thailand in November 2023, Toyota worked with eight different body shop partners to premiere a series of specialty vehicles alongside the base pickup. New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2025 The restoration work included taking out the windows, the engine and transmission and working with the paint and body shop to bring it back. Eric D. Lawrence, Freep.com, 21 Nov. 2025 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 19 Dec. 2025.

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