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dépanneur

day-pah-NURnounRegionalQuebec English

A Canadian English slang term. Browse all Canadian slang.

What it means

  1. A corner shop or convenience store. Universally shortened to dep by English-speaking Quebecers.

In use

  • I'll grab some milk at the dep.

  • There's a dépanneur on every second corner in Montreal.

Where it comes from

From French dépanner, 'to help out of a fix' — the shop that gets you out of trouble. Used in English by Montrealers with no sense of switching languages, which is characteristic of Quebec English generally.

Other forms

Spellings and variants:
dep