ma-and-pa
ma-and-pa adjective: synonym of mom-and-pop.
Adjective (1)
ma-and-pa (not comparable)
- Synonym of mom-and-pop.
- Synonyms:
- mom-and-pop
Adjective (2) capitalized: Ma-and-Pa
Ma-and-Pa (not comparable)
- Alternative letter-case form of ma-and-pa.
- Road nostalgia was carried to full flower in the press and television reports on the end of 66. These became virtually a genre in themselves: the Lament for Route 66. Sixty-six, we were told, was being bypassed. The road of the Okies and of the migration to California, with its lovely little...1986, Phil Patton, “Sentimental Journeys: The Myths of Route 66”, in Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, part 4 (Gone to Look for America)...
- If you go into one of those fifty-year-old Ma-and-Pa diners like the Yankee Doodle in New Haven, the walls are covered with signs saving things like “Please don’t put your knapsack on the counter”—more anthropological evidence that people used to put their knapsacks on the counter a lot.2001, Joel Spolsky, “Choices”, in User Interface Design for Programmers, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page 15
Synonyms of ma-and-pa
Forms of ma-and-pa
| alternative form | Ma-and-Pa |
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Questions about ma-and-pa
- What does ma-and-pa mean?
- Ma-and-pa means synonym of mom-and-pop.
- What part of speech is ma-and-pa?
- Ma-and-pa is an adjective.
Words near ma-and-pa in the dictionary
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