mom-and-pop

Definitions

1. 1

   Small and unsophisticated, typically because operated by a couple or a family.

   • Mom-and-pop diners are disappearing from American streets and being replaced by bland corporate giants.
2. 2

   Alternative form of mom and pop (“a mom-and-pop operation”).

3. 3

   Alternative letter-case form of mom-and-pop.

   • That’s how we discovered New England: back roads, Mom-and-Pop diners, historic markers and all.
   • At first glance, Lincoln seemed caught in a time warp—a place of 1930s tourist cabins and Mom-and-Pop diners where one could get honest-to-goodness milk shakes, made in a blender with real ice cream.
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   1. 4

      Alternative letter-case form of mom and pop.

      • The new retail marketing companies, being highly profit-oriented, will be interested in the “cream” of the marketplace. The “cream” will not be the Mom-and-Pops and corner service stations of rural Chesterfield County.
      • Eventually, it actually happened as the neighborhood improved, rents got jacked-up and the Mom-and-Pops and importer/exporters gave way to restaurants, bars and coffee shops. The “hood” had now become hip.
      • Wall Street was making a market in footwear but Main St. was seeing stores close. First, the Mom-and-Pops. They said the overhead was eating them up.

The neighborhood