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View definitions for mom-and-pop store

mom-and-pop store

noun as in convenience store

Weak matches

noun as in general store

noun as in grocery store

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When discussing options for gardening without a garden, the author tells how three generations of her family lived above their mom-and-pop store in Brooklyn.

And those are just the high-profile stories — not including the countless mom-and-pop store owners, restaurateurs, investors, inventors and startup founders who fuel our local economies and global industries.

Instagram purveyors are “a version of a mom-and-pop store,” she said.

You have everything from a mom-and-pop store to a multinational corporation, which is omnipresent and then somehow you can’t get them legally anywhere, which is one of the things that I’m keeping an eye on at the Supreme Court right now.

From Slate

Grandpa Dad and Grandma Mom, Iva Howard, chose to buy the groceries they needed and food they didn’t grow from a mom-and-pop store in town.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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