five-and-ten

noun

five-and-ten

noun
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US A five-and-dime.

  • Christmas toys—windup robots and air guns and painted trains—filled the front window of the five-and-ten.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 121:

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