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sweetshops

sweetshops is the plural 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.

Questions about sweetshops

What is sweetshops the plural of?
Sweetshops is the plural of sweetshop.

Words near sweetshops in the dictionary

  1. sweetroots
  2. sweets
  3. Sweetser
  4. Sweetsers
  5. sweetshop
  6. sweetshops
  7. sweetshrub
  8. sweetshrubs
  9. sweetsmelling
  10. sweetsome
  11. sweetsop

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