five-and-ten-cent store

five-and-ten-cent store
five-and-ten-cent store [fīv′ən ten′sent΄ ]
n.
a store that sells a wide variety of inexpensive merchandise, orig. with many articles priced at five or ten cents: also five-and-ten or five-and-dime [fīv′ən dīm′] n.

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