counterful

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Enough to fill a counter.

   • It was quite different from the gay but cheap cups and saucers which he had picked up at a five-and-ten-cent store, with infinite care, to find a single good design among counterfuls of trash.
   • It was too easy to blame the retailers for bringing Christmas into disrepute with countersful of “trashy things that no buyer in his senses would at any other time of the year even glance at.”
   • I recalled only the voice. It did not match this graceful woman, at ease and smiling, buying a counterful of vitamins.

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