standee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of standee
Example Sentences
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A winter ski jacket and a “Love Me Tender” theater lobby standee also were sold.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2019
Haunting the conference room is an immense cineplex standee for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” the 2012 film made from the mash-up novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, who partnered with David Katzenberg to form KatzSmith.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2017
The official Aramark Pope Francis 10-inch standee retails for $20, as does another seller’s 18-inch pope.
From Time • Sep. 21, 2015
This year the company is selling two versions of a Pope Francis standee for $160.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 26, 2015
A foot or two from it stood something like the standee of a compass, bearing, like it a cradled dial under whose crystal ran concentric rings of prisoned, lambent vapours, faintly blue.
From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham
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