five-and-ten

[ fahyv-uhn-ten ]

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noun

Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uhn-ten-sent], /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/, five-and-dime [fahyv-uhn-dahym], /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/, dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of a five-and-ten.

Origin of five-and-ten

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First recorded in 1875–80

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How to use five-and-ten in a sentence

But first she visited the five-and-ten-cent store to buy an egg-beater.
The Cinder Pond | Carroll Watson Rankin
He ran private trains and sold acre and villa lots, and five-and ten-acre farms, for ten per cent.
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 | Harris Newmark
A five-and-ten furnished a pair of heavy-rimmed glasses that seemed to have blanks in them, and he decided he might get by.
Pursuit | Lester del Rey
Naturally, I could think of nothing but Stigler and five-and-ten-cent competition, and finally I had an idea.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant | Harold Whitehead
You know, I think there's room in this town for a good five-and-ten-cent store, specializing on kitchen goods.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant | Harold Whitehead

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