dollar-store
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See also: dollar store
Noun
dollar-store
- (US, Canada, attributive) Synonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.
- Synonyms: poor man's, Wish.com, (UK) Poundland, pound-shop, Tesco Value, BTEC
- 1995, Pico Iyer, Cuba and the Night, page 34:
- 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.
- 2005, Ayana D. Byrd, Akiba Solomon, Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, page 95:
- Weave tracks askew, postpregnancy bellies pushing dollar-store seams, they look a hot mess.
- 2012 October 31, Rose DiManno, “Star introduces digital subscription because it costs big bucks to put out a decent paper”, in Toronto Star:
- We may cost a buck from the box but we don’t put out dollar store journalism.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dollar-store.
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