mom-and-pop
adjective
1
: being or relating to a small owner-operated business
a mom-and-pop grocery
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Compounding pharmacies, once the backrooms of mom-and-pop drugstores, are evolving into a multibillion-dollar infrastructure play.
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Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Local mom-and-pop businesses don't always have credit card machines.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
That background in industrial systems and capital-intensive projects positioned them to bring scalable fiber processing to a U.S. hemp market still largely operating on mom-and-pop farms and as pet projects.
—Kasi Martin, Sourcing Journal, 9 July 2025
What else to know: This mom-and-pop restaurant is an east-side favorite, with one of the best (and most affordable) Tex-Mex steaks in town.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2025
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Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Local mom-and-pop businesses don't always have credit card machines.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
That background in industrial systems and capital-intensive projects positioned them to bring scalable fiber processing to a U.S. hemp market still largely operating on mom-and-pop farms and as pet projects.
—Kasi Martin, Sourcing Journal, 9 July 2025
What else to know: This mom-and-pop restaurant is an east-side favorite, with one of the best (and most affordable) Tex-Mex steaks in town.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2025
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“Mom-and-pop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mom-and-pop. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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