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sweet shop

sweet shop is the alternative form of sweetshop.

Meaning of sweetshop

Noun

sweetshop (plural sweetshops)

  1. A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
    • Likewise, when I go into my local sweetshop to buy a chocolate bar, the shopkeeper doesn't look me up and down, notice I'm a bit overweight, and suggest I pop round to the greengrocers next door and buy an apple instead.2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, Rail, page 54
  2. (euphemistic, slang) A drug dealer.

Forms of sweet shop

pluralsweet shops

Questions about sweet shop

What is sweet shop the alternative form of?
Sweet shop is the alternative form of sweetshop.

Words near sweet shop in the dictionary

  1. sweet scented
  2. sweet science
  3. sweet seventeen
  4. sweet seventeens
  5. sweet shaggytuft
  6. sweet shop
  7. sweet shops
  8. sweet shrimp
  9. sweet sixteen
  10. sweet sixteens
  11. sweet smell of success

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