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Woolworth's

Woolworth's proper noun: a five-and-dime store in the United States.

Proper noun

Woolworth's

  1. A five-and-dime store in the United States.
  2. A major high-street retail chain in the United Kingdom until the late 2000s.
    • We passed through an inner courtyard overladen with fake wrought-iron railings and accents badly in need of a paint job, evoking a kind of Woolworth's Vieux Carré.1989, The Advocate, numbers 515-521, page 28
    • […] she thought that to allow the masses power would be to usher in a kind of Woolworth's world of vulgarity.2008, Angelica Goodden, Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile, page 98
    Synonyms:
    Woolies
  3. (slang) Two pair fives and tens.
  4. (slang) A five and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

Synonyms of Woolworth's

Origin of Woolworth's

After the F. W. Woolworth Company, named for its founder, Frank Winfield Woolworth.

Questions about Woolworth's

What does Woolworth's mean?
Woolworth's means a five-and-dime store in the United States.
What part of speech is Woolworth's?
Woolworth's is a proper noun.

Words near Woolworth's in the dictionary

  1. woolworkers
  2. woolworking
  3. woolworks
  4. Woolworth gun
  5. Woolworth guns
  6. Woolworth's
  7. wooly
  8. wooly bear
  9. wooly bears
  10. wooly mammoth
  11. wooly mammoths

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