" mom-and-pop "

 [ "mom and pop" ]

1: A business which poses as a knowledgeable and capable entity, but which is actually just a couple of clowns trying to make an easy buck.

  * e.g.,  ... Larry: I just paid $5,000 for this really awesome course in digital film animation screenplay-based photography! 

 [ "mom and pop" ]

1: A bullshit term used by wealthy boomers to garner sympathy for their exploitative business practices. Often the business is under threat from possible regulation, and use of the term 'mom and pop' is a cheesy attempt to get young and less affluent people to distinguish between them and a large corporation, but often there is very little difference in principles aside from the scale. Often a large private business in the millions of dollars will describe themselves as mom-and-pop anyway as a marketing gimmick. At this point, the term has been used so frequently and inappropriately that it no longer holds any distinction, aside from making an entitled fair-weather capitalist stand out in the rain.

  * e.g.,  ... We are just normal mom and pop landlords, where your rent increase comes with freshly baked cookies. Won't someone stick up for the mom and pop hedge fund managers of the world. 

 [ "mom and pop shop" ]

1: Local corner store owned by local. Not a 7-eleven franchise.

  * e.g.,  ... Brit: Where'd you go yesterday? 

 [ "Mom and Pop Store" ]

1: An independantly owned business. If it is a music business, they will sometimes release CD's a week before they come out.

  * e.g.,  ... Yo, that Mom and Pop store down on west 73rd has the new G Unit Cd. Go cop it now b4 that ish run out! 

 [ "mom and pop special" ]

1: A quickie while the children are asleep.

  * e.g.,  ... We had a mom and pop special right after the baby went to sleep. 

 [ "mom pop" ]

1: music that moms listen to

  * e.g.,  ... "Hey man, do you listen to Adele?" 

 [ "u moms/pops" ]

1: referring to your mother/father, except only pussies say "your mother"

  * e.g.,  ... u moms touched u pops 

 [ "mom-and-popped" ]

1: To enlist permission from another authority after one authority denied an initial claim. In practice, this would be like a child not getting a favorable permission from a parent, and then going to another to hopefully get a new, favorable outcome.

  * e.g.,  ... Lenny the office worker wanted to listen to music at work, but his boss said no. He then mom-and-popped the situation and asked his boss's boss to hear some tunes.