Meaning of ma-and-pa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of mom-and-pop.
   not-comparable
2. Alternative letter-case form of ma-and-pa.
   alt-of, not-comparable

Examples

“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 Ma-and-Pa diners, its motor courts and teepee motels, was being killed by the cold, impersonal Interstates.”

“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.”

“Jim, on the other hand, was a great crusader for the integrity of roadside diners. Ma-and-Pa diners were the best – the backbone of the road, and thus the spine of the North American landscape – however, Husky’s presence right across the continent impressed him.”

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