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fleamarket

fleamarket is the alternative form of flea market.

fleamarket is the alternative form of flea-market.

Meaning of flea market

Noun

flea market (plural flea markets)

  1. An outdoor temporary market selling inexpensive antiques, curios, etc.
    • Although things are sold cheaper at the flea market, it's always a good idea to check whether the item is stolen.
    Synonyms:
    swap meet
  2. A permanent indoor market of stalls in a warehouse selling inexpensive antiques, outdated goods, curios, etc.
    • The Towne Hall is a big inflatable building in the middle of the Snooze ’n’ Crusie. It is Derelict Las Vegas: convenience store, video arcade, laundromat, bar, liquor store, flea market, whorehouse.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 276

Meaning of flea-market

Verb

flea-market (third-person singular simple present flea-markets, present participle flea-marketing, simple past and past participle flea-marketed)

  1. (transitive) To sell (something or things) at a flea market.

Forms of fleamarket

Noun
pluralfleamarkets
Verb
third-person singular presentfleamarkets
present participlefleamarketing
past participlefleamarketed
pastfleamarketed

Questions about fleamarket

What is fleamarket the alternative form of?
Fleamarket is the alternative form of flea market.

Words near fleamarket in the dictionary

  1. fleakers
  2. fleaking
  3. fleaks
  4. flealike
  5. fleam
  6. fleamarket
  7. fleamarketed
  8. fleamarketing
  9. fleamarkets
  10. fleams
  11. fleamy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fleamarket (page history and authors); flea market (page history and authors); flea-market (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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