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- n. alternative spelling of dime store.
Examples
“It didn't help matters that I couldn't read those cheap ESP cards you could buy at the dimestore.”
“No, no, no … the appeal of Twilight is that it gives the appearance of a lust-filled dimestore paperback that might have Fabio on the cover, but actually only goes so far as TALKING about wanton romps in the forest.”
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“But the writing Ive been doing for thirty years has been mostly non fi ction: articles, essays, press releases, and a weekly newspaper column, some dimestore philosophy that I cranked out for about three years.”
“So sometimes, I'd get permission to go on little shopping sprees, charging stickers and pens at the stationary store, ribbons at the dimestore, Bonnie Bell Lipsmackers at the drugstore, an album at the record store, a bike bell at the sports store, seeds at the hardware store for my vegetable garden.”
“That junk above from the dictionary was probably written by some dimestore hunting guide.”
“Whedon's creation gives equal importance to horses and spacecraft, and at its heart is a dimestore paperback with a Marlboro Man on the cover.”
“Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday.”
“Our seemingly somnambulant landlord may appear to have nodded off in the midst of our noisy shenanigans but we should never forget it's a light sleeper, ubiquitously omnipresent and equipped with weapons that make atomic bombs look like dimestore novelties.”
“While I'm guilty of having been seduced by haute scrubs in newfangled packaging -- salts from the Dead Sea and scarce oils from Indonesia, multi-syllabic blooms you never conceived having existed -- believe me when I say that there are always affordable dimestore luxe options when it comes to your DIY spa experience.”
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“For my two-part Splurge-On-Me Holiday Gift Guide, I'm offering lush, almost bewitching, covetable options -- from cookbooks to dimestore luxe products to high-end fragrances.”
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artoparts See: Nickel and Dimed. Apr 1, 2009
treeseed The concept of the variety store originated with the five and ten, or nickel and dime, or five and dime, or dimestore, a store where everything cost either five cents (a nickel) or ten cents (a dime). The originator of the concept may be Woolworths, which began in 1878 in Watertown, New York. Other five and tens that existed in the USA included W.T. Grant, J.J. Newberry's, McCrory's, Kresge, McClellan's, and Ben Franklin Stores.,/i>
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