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plural sweetshops
A shop selling confectionery, especially one that sells predominantly confectionery. quotations 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.
2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, Rail, page 54
(slang, euphemistic) A drug dealer.