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pound-shop

noun

Etymology

Attributive form of pound shop, due to the perception of the goods sold in pound shops as being cheap, low-quality versions of more expensive products found elsewhere.

Definitions

  1. Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior imitation.

    • […] no rational human being should ever trust a single utterance issued by a pound-shop Trumpian administration.
    • Colum Eastwood, the MP for Foyle and leader of the SDLP, the nationalist party whose founding member, John Hume, won a Nobel prize for his championing of the peace process in Northern Ireland, called Braverman a “pound-shop Enoch Powell”.

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