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    [Adjective]  | "dime-store" | \ ˈdīm-ˌstȯr \


    1: inexpensive

    2: tawdry, second-rate


    Origin: 1938 ;

    [Noun]  | "dime store" 


    1: five-and-dime


    Origin: circa 1928 ;

    [Noun]  | "dime store" 


    1: as in department store, chain store;


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    [Adjective]  | "dime-store" 


    1: costing little;


      * e.g., " ... a dime-store tablecloth that is certainly good enough for a picnic "





     [ "dime–store philosophy" ]

    1: Cheap, one-size-fits-all explanations about life. They consist of clichés, empty truisms and tautologies, and (often contradictory) platitudes.

      * e.g.,  ... I run from the coffeehouse whenever that windbag shows up with his dime–store philosophy. 


     [ "dime–store philosophy" ]

    2: Dime–stores were common in the early part of the 20th c. Every main street had such a store where you could buy tawdry, second-rate stuff for cheap prices. (Now they're Dollar stores, though these are not as common or a central fixture in every town.)

      * e.g.,  ... I'll take Crumb's cartoons over the banal musings of a dime-store philosopher any day. 

     [ "dime-store whore" ]

    1: (1) a very cheap prostitute or (2) a girl dressed so as to look undressed

      * e.g.,  ... With her miniskirt and combat boots, Rachel looked like a dime-store whore. 

     [ "Dime Store Slut" ]

    1: A female who knows how to take a dick.

      * e.g.,  ... I met this Dime Store Slut last night who was down to fuck. 

     [ "dime store pimp" ]

    1: A low rent wannabe pimp. A person who thinks they have nice cloths or have a nice car but they are really just cheap junk.

      * e.g.,  ... That guy over there in that suped up Oldsmobile, he ain't nothin' but a dime store pimp. 

     [ "Dime store hood" ]

    1: Someone who steels little inexpensive items and thinks he's a boss. Really just a small time outlaw.

      * e.g.,  ... That dime store hood took a screwdriver when he could of took the whole set. 

     [ "dime store hood" ]

    1: Someone who will commit a worthless crime for pennies instead of dollars . Someone who will do crime for a dime. A dirt bag that will steel from everybody when if he asked most likely you would give it to them.

      * e.g.,  ... That that dime store hood only took my controller and not my drone what good will that do for him. 

     [ "nickel and dime store" ]

    1: See dime. A nickel and dime store is a group of mixed dimes and non-dimes, i.e. attractive and unattractive people.

      * e.g.,  ... Some of those chicks over there are hot, but the others aren't, it's a nickel and dime store. 

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