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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Instead, the witness said Carver followed them down the street, where Safi stopped at a second auto body shop. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026 Harris organized a meeting at his auto-body shop with Chunky Parker. — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 Last June 16, armed immigration agents broke the locks to forcibly enter an Oxnard auto body shop. — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026 Police are looking for information from anyone who may have seen a vehicle matching the description, or those brought to an auto-body shop for repairs. — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 30 June 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 7 Jul. 2026.

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