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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The structures involved were a performing arts theater, a restaurant called Newhall Refinery and a body shop, all located in a historic structure more than 100 years old in Old Town Newhall, according to the LAFD and reports from the scene. — City News Service, Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026 In the end, a woman who was friends with the home’s occupants shot and killed a man known to frequent the auto body shop, according to witness testimony. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026 Nearly two months after the fire was first ignited in the roof of the Lineage cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, Ramirez said his business, a car repair and body shop, is still struggling. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Roughly 40 miles northwest of Charlotte, in a spanking-clean body shop off a two-lane country road sits one of Hollywood’s most famous cars, stripped to its essence. — Joe Marusak august 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Aug. 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

Rhymes for body shop

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“Body shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20shop. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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