wobble shop

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps because people who drink alcohol have a wobbly gait??”)

Noun

wobble shop (plural wobble shops)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A shop that sells beer without a licence.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary