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op-shop

informal Austral and NZ short for opportunity shop

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Alongside the pictures she wrote: "I recently picked up this book from a St Kilda Op-shop for my daughter.

Mum finds heartbreaking note in second-hand Disney book she bought for young daughter; A mother and daughter are on a mission to reunite a book with its owner after discovering a hidden message

Dodie, Coco and Enron are joined by two street kids, Taxi and Jones, and travel to Sydney with Jesus dressed in cool op-shop gear to deliver Him.

Williams, Gabrielle: The Reluctant Hallelujah

Volunteer your time to recycle electrical appliances donated for re-sale at a local op-shop. Over the last four years I've tagged and tested over 2000 electrical and electronic items.

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'We are having a "meet and greet" at the local bowling club and an op-shop themed ball at the RSL,' said Sue.

You've got to be in it to win it! Kempsey Health Campus gears up for the Inter-Hospital Mini Olympics--and proves that fitness can be fun

The effect, while not at all nostalgic, nevertheless carries connotations of the outmoded and is visually paralleled by the thrift-store (in Australian, "op-shop") look of his Dieter Roth--like amalgam of shelved equipment 0, 16, 33, 45, 78, 2004, a sculpture occasionally activated as a performance platform.