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dollar-store

noun

Etymology

Attributive form of dollar store.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of pound-shop

    Synonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.

    • Near-synonym: ten-cent
    • Once, I thought I saw her, but it was only another girl, with an East German guy, in the same dollar-store dress she’d worn for my camera.
    • Weave tracks askew, postpregnancy bellies pushing dollar-store seams, they look a hot mess.

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