ma-and-pa
chiefly US
adjective
Denoting a small business, especially a shop, owned and operated by a couple or family; (in extended use) applied to other similarly small-scale commercial enterprises.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Blue Island Calument Park (Illinois) Sun-Standard.
- monopitch
- Monoplacophora
- monoplacophoran
- monoplane
- monoplanist
- monoplastidic
- monoplegia
- monoplegic
- monopleurid
- monoploid
- monoploidy
- monopod
- monopodial
- monopodially
- monopodic
- monopodium
- monopolar
- monopolarly
- monopole
- Monopolies and Mergers Commission
- Monopolies Commission
- monopolise
- monopolism
- monopolist
- monopolistic