| 单词 | dime-store | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdime-store   dime-store  n. U.S. a shop in which the maximum price was originally a dime; also attributive or as adj. , spec. designating a cheap and inferior article; cf. five-and-ten n.   (cent store). ΚΠ 1928    M. H. Weseen Crowell's Dict. Eng. Gram. 188  				Dime store, colloquial name for a store that specializes in articles selling for ten cents. The five and ten is a variant. 1931    Kansas City 		(Missouri)	 Star 23 Oct.  				A dime store in Emporia. 1938    Newsweek 31 Jan. 36/1  				‘Best buy’ was a dime-store product, which cost 5 cents a gram. 1942    L. V. Berrey  & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §21/14  				Cheap; paltry,..dime-store. < as lemmas | 
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