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five-and-ten-cent store definition

☆ five·-and-ten·-cent· store (fīv′ən ten′sent′)

noun

a store that sells a wide variety of inexpensive merchandise, orig. with many articles priced at five or ten cents
also five-and-ten five′·-and-ten′ or five-and-dime five′·-and-dime′ (-ən dīm′)

noun

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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