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dime store
(dime store)
noun
North American
a shop selling cheap merchandise (originally one where the maximum price was a dime).
[
as modifier
]
cheap and inferior:
plastic dime-store toys
[
as modifier
]
trite; simplistic:
the dime-store moralism of yesteryear
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