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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to a small retail business, usually owned and operated by members of a family: a mom-and-pop grocery.
2.
of or indicating something, as an enterprise, investment, or project, that is independent, small in scope, and modestly financed.
noun
3.
a small-scale, owner-operated business.
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Mom-and-pop
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Origin:
1950–55, Americanism
1950–55, Americanism
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