Usually means: Small, family-owned, independent businesses.
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  1. mom-and-pop: Merriam-Webster
  2. mom-and-pop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mom-and-pop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mom-and-pop: Wiktionary
  5. mom-and-pop: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. mom-and-pop: Dictionary.com
  7. Mom-and-pop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. mom-and-pop: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mom-and-pop: Legal dictionary

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adjective:  (US, Canada, typically of a business) Small and unsophisticated, typically because operated by a couple or a family.
noun:  Alternative spelling of mom and pop: a mom-and-pop operation. [A small business, often but not always owned or operated by a family.]

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