dime store

Noun

Meaning

dime store (plural dime stores)

(US) A store selling inexpensive items.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

emporium department store countinghouse country store general store sixpenny discount store wareroom junk shop dollar store five-and-dime ten-cent store

Examples

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store. Natalie Wood

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. Beth Henley

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. Quincy Jones

Close letter words and terms

dime out dime piece dime sack dime up dimeback dimebolin