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Hallmark holiday

noun

Etymology

From the Hallmark Cards greeting card company.

Definitions

  1. An ostensible holiday, or, by extension, any occasion, invented or popularized for profit.

    • See? Valentine's Day is not just a Hallmark holiday after all.
    • […] that the whole funeral and gravestone thing was just a racket, was this ridiculous tradition, rooted in commerce, a Hallmark holiday sort of thing, […]

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Hallmark holiday.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA