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dollar-store

dollar-store noun: synonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.

Noun

dollar-store

  1. (Canada, US, attributive) 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.1995, Pico Iyer, Cuba and the Night, page 34

Synonyms of dollar-store

Origin of dollar-store

Attributive form of dollar store.

Questions about dollar-store

What does dollar-store mean?
Dollar-store means synonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.
What part of speech is dollar-store?
Dollar-store is a noun.

Words near dollar-store in the dictionary

  1. dollar-aires
  2. dollar-and-cent
  3. dollar-cost averaging
  4. dollar-sign eyes
  5. dollar-speaking
  6. dollar-store
  7. dollarable
  8. dollaraire
  9. dollaraires
  10. dollarbird
  11. dollarbirds

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