Usually means: Misuse of apostrophes in plurals.
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  1. greengrocer's apostrophe, greengrocers' apostrophe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. greengrocers' apostrophe: The Word Spy
  3. greengrocer's apostrophe, greengrocers' apostrophe: Wiktionary
  4. greengrocer's apostrophe: Dictionary.com
  5. Greengrocers' apostrophe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Greengrocer's apostrophe: World Wide Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (greengrocer's apostrophe)

noun:  An incorrectly used apostrophe, especially one mistakenly used to form the plural of a noun, for example to write the plural of banana as banana's instead of bananas.


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