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    [Noun]  | "thrift" | \ ˈthrift \


    1: careful management especially of money

    2: a savings bank or savings and loan association —called also thrift institution

    3: healthy and vigorous growth


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English, from Old Norse, prosperity, from thrīfask to thrive;

    [Noun]  | "thrift shop" 


    1: a shop that sells secondhand articles and especially clothes and is often run for charitable purposes


    Origin: 1944 ;

    [Verb]  | "thrift" 


    1: to shop for or buy used goods especially at a store that specializes in secondhand merchandise


    Origin: 1983 ;

     Derivative of {see: |thrift:1|thrift:1} (from its attributive use in {see: |thrift shop|thrift shop});

    [Noun]  | "thrift" 


    1: careful management of material resources;


      * e.g., " ... through hard work and thrift our father was able to raise the money to put all four of us through college "





    [Noun]  | "thrift shop" 


    1: as in department store, chain store;


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    [Noun]  | "thrift shops" 


    1: as in department stores, chain stores;


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     [ "thrift" ]

    1: A used clothing/stuff store. One of a kind stuff super cheap.

      * e.g.,  ... Im going to the thrift to get a clutch. 

     [ "thrift" ]

    1: a cooler way to say charity shop,u can get cool,most of the time,brand new stuff for cheap and there are some cool finds

      * e.g.,  ... imm a go to the thrift store see if i can get any back to school stuff or maybe a new cute thermoflask 

     [ "thrifting" ]

    1: When one visits several different thrift shops, second-hand shops, and vintage clothing stores in the hopes of buying several items of cheap and unusual clothing and other items. One usually does this with friends.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hey, where did you get that weird top?" 

     [ "Thrifting" ]

    1: Shopping in thrift stores for trendy, vintage clothing and/or other items.

      * e.g.,  ... Let's go thrifting on friday, I get paid" "Okay, I'll ask my parents for more money 

     [ "The Thrift" ]

    1: The Thrift is the ongoing search for amazing, kitschy, cool, outrageous, and inexplicable things at Thrift Stores (Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc.), yard sales, Government Auctions, Penny Saver newspapers, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... When I hit my thirties, I thought I was done searching through bales of clothing and pawnshops, always looking for the ultimate score, but THE THRIFT is a seductive mistress, and her siren-call could not be ignored. 


     [ "The Thrift" ]

    2: The Thrift is a never-ending journey, like life, where one special item may fill a particular need, but never completely Satisfies.

      * e.g.,  ... I'll gladly keep my fifty cent copy of "Maggot Brain" over some re-mastered quadraphonic enhanced CD... the scratches add authenticity to the music and remind me of The Thrift and all her sweet mysteries.  


     [ "The Thrift" ]

    3: Basically, The Thrift is thrifting in a more universal way.

      * e.g.,  ... That guy in the line ahead of me got that Eames chair just before me, the agony of The Thrift! 

     [ "A thrift" ]

    1: A term used to refer to a promiscuous person who gives easy sexual access to people. Commonly said to women. In other words: he/she is used, thus the word “thrift”.

      * e.g.,  ... Man i’m telling you, this bitch is a thrift! Shut your thrifted ass up ho She’s used bro she a thrift 

     [ "Thrifting" ]

    1: Where people go to a thrift stores and buy clothes

      * e.g.,  ... I wanna thrift Lets go thrifting 

     [ "thrifting" ]

    1: When a group of three or more people(male or female) gather and one person shits into another person's mouth. And then they pass it on into the next group member's mouth. The shit goes around the group mouth to mouth until it is completely dissolved.

      * e.g.,  ... guy #1- Hey is that chocolate on the side of your mouth? 

     [ "thrifting" ]

    1: A sexual game involving many people where one is blindfolded while there partner ejacuates in anothers anus. The blindfolded person licks everyones asses until they can locate their partners cum.

      * e.g.,  ... John knew it was true love when mary located his cum during a thrifting game. 

     [ "Thrift Wiff" ]

    1: The smell you smell as you enter a thrift store.

      * e.g.,  ... As I walked into the Goodwill I definitely got a thrift wiff. Smell may come from: Old shoes, old clothes, used books, etc., all enclosed together in the same building. 

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