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Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart verb: former spelling of Walmart.

Verb

Wal-Mart (third-person singular simple present Wal-Marts, present participle Wal-Marting, simple past and past participle Wal-Marted)

  1. Former spelling of Walmart.
    • Sometimes people write in and they say, “Joe Bob, don’t you have nothin GOOD to report about drive-ins?” and the answer is usually we’re too busy savin the old ones from gettin flea-marketed, condoed or Wal-Marted.1987 September 18, Joe Bob Briggs [pseudonym; John Irving Bloom], “‘Bad’ video pre-empts college football”, in El Paso Times, volume 107, El Paso, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, “El Tiempo” section, page 10
    • Merchants in small communities have been “Wal-Marted” by the general merchandise chain store in the nearby larger community.1992, Cornelia Flora, Jan L. Flora, Louis E. Swanson, Mark Weinberg, Rural Communities: Legacy & Change, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 267

Forms of Wal-Mart

third-person singular presentWal-Marts
present participleWal-Marting
past participleWal-Marted
pastWal-Marted

Questions about Wal-Mart

What does Wal-Mart mean?
Wal-Mart means former spelling of Walmart.
What part of speech is Wal-Mart?
Wal-Mart is a verb.
What is the past tense of Wal-Mart?
The past tense of Wal-Mart is Wal-Marted.

Words near Wal-Mart in the dictionary

  1. Wakwafi
  2. Wakwavi
  3. waky waky
  4. WAL
  5. Wal Wal
  6. Wal-Mart
  7. Wal-Marted
  8. Wal-Marting
  9. Wal-Marts
  10. Wal.
  11. wala

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