DCHP-2

depanneur dep, occasionally dépanneur, < Quebec French dépanner 'to repair' DCHP-2 (May 2016)

• n. — Quebec

  a neighbourhood convenience store (see Image 1) .

  Type: 1. Origin — This is a borrowing from Quebec French, where it apparently developed in relation to "mending" someone's shortage of goods typically sold in those stores. It is used by 77 percent of Montreal anglophones (see Boberg 2010: 173), and widely known elsewhere in the country. The clipped short form dep is widely used.
  See also ITP Nelson, s.v. "dépanneur", which is marked "Quebec", COD-2, which marks it as "Cdn (Que.)", and OED-3 which marks it as "Canad.".

  See also: dep  dairy  toupie