minimart

English

Etymology

mini- +‎ mart

Noun

minimart (plural minimarts)

  1. A convenience store
    • 2016, Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler, Manchester by the Sea, written by Kenneth Lonergan:
      I went to the minimart...It’s about a fifteen minute walk both ways. But I didn’t wanna drive cause I was really wasted.
    • 1988 July 15, Tom Valeo, “Happy Happy Good Show”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      The joke is that these two men are sitting in front of a gas station that has been transformed into a minimart capable of supplying anything--even the kosher pickled herring requested by an Orthodox Jew.

Translations
convenience store — see convenience store
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