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two-dollar shop

two-dollar shop is the alternative form of $2 shop.

Meaning of $2 shop

Noun

$2 shop (plural $2 shops)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A shop where many small and inexpensive items can be bought.
    • You know how when you walk into a $2 shop, you feel both a sense of possibility and dismay?2018 November 24, Amelia Lester, “How a chain store captures the essence of a country's everyday life”, in The Age

Forms of two-dollar shop

pluraltwo-dollar shops

Questions about two-dollar shop

What is two-dollar shop the alternative form of?
Two-dollar shop is the alternative form of $2 shop.

Words near two-dollar shop in the dictionary

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  3. two-dimensional
  4. two-dimensionally
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  6. two-dollar shop
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  9. two-double
  10. two-edged
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Adapted from Wiktionary: two-dollar shop (page history and authors); $2 shop (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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