store-bought

[stawr-bawt, stohr-]

adjective

Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

1. commercially made rather than homemade.

Word History and Origins

Origin of store-bought¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Over the next month on The Bite, Salon’s food newsletter, I’ll share four recipes that celebrate autumn produce — apples, pumpkin, pears and figs — each designed for weeknights, with store-bought shortcuts where they make sense.

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“We were eating most often bakery bread rather than just commercial store-bought packaged bread, and he really had a great appreciation for it and wanted to model that for us,” Shalhoub says.

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You can absolutely make your own — I love this King Arthur recipe, if you’re feeling ambitious — but in the immortal words of Ina, store-bought really is fine here.

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You can use store-bought — Murray’s is a favorite — or homemade.

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All you need is lemonade, store-bought or homemade, along with a jar of pickles.

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