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dollar-store en · NOUN

Etymology

Attributive form of dollar store.

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US, attributive) Synonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.
    • Weave tracks askew, postpregnancy bellies pushing dollar-store seams, they look a hot mess. 2005, Ayana D. Byrd, Akiba Solomon, Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, page 95:
    • We may cost a buck from the box but we don’t put out dollar store journalism. 2012 October 31, Rose DiManno, “Star introduces digital subscription because it costs big bucks to put out a decent paper”, in Toronto Star:
    • Once, I thought I saw her, but it was only another girl, with an East German guy, in the same dollar-store dress she’d worn for my camera. 1995, Pico Iyer, Cuba and the Night, page 34:
    • Near-synonym: ten-cent

Synonyms

poor man's · Wish.com · Poundland · pound-shop · Tesco Value · pound-shop · BTEC · ten-cent