high street Archives - British Slang Dictionary

Wetherspoons

J D Wetherspoon operates around 800 pubs across Britain and Ireland. They are large, cheap, open early, and universally referred…

Argos is a catalogue retailer, and its shopping method is so specific to Britain that explaining it abroad produces bafflement.…

An off-licence is a shop licensed to sell alcohol for drinking somewhere else. The name comes straight from licensing law:…

Marks and Spencer began in 1884 as a market stall in Leeds run by Michael Marks, a Polish-Jewish refugee, whose…

The newsagent is the small shop on the corner that opens before everything else, sells newspapers and magazines, and has…

The Post Office runs around 11,500 branches across the UK, selling postage and handling banking, bill payments, passport applications, driving…

Greggs is a bakery chain with over 2,500 shops — more outlets in Britain than McDonald's — selling hot savoury…

There are around 10,000 charity shops in Britain, and every town of any size has several. They sell donated second-hand…

The high street is the main shopping street of a British town, and in most towns it is literally called…