sweetshop

See also: sweet-shop and sweet shop

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Etymology

From sweet +‎ shop.

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Noun

sweetshop (plural sweetshops)

  1. A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
    Synonyms: candy shop, candy store
    • 2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, Rail, page 54:
      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.
  2. (slang, euphemistic) A drug dealer.

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