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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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 It’s sited between a tire shop and an auto-body shop, so locals will always have a place to eat while their car is getting fixed in the middle of the night. John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026 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 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 15 Jan. 2026.

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