ten-cent
adjEtymology From a time when 10¢ was a commonly encountered price for cheap goods and services.
1
Dated, Idiomatic, Usually two-bit (insignificant or worthless); cheap (both inexpensive and poorly made).
- Near-synonyms: poor man's; (present-day analogues) dollar-store, Wish.com, (UK) Poundland, pound-shop, Tesco Value, BTEC
- Forget that frickin' ten-cent supplier. From now on, we'll buy only from trusted partners.
1 more example
- Enough of these ten-cent tools. From now on, we'll buy only the good stuff that doesn't break so easily.
2
Dated, Usually Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ten, cent: costing 10¢.
- Derived terms
- ten-cent store, ten-cent tour, ten-cent word
- Related terms
- fifty-cent tour