Meaning of sweetshop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery.
2. A drug dealer.
   euphemistic, slang

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Examples

“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.”

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