five-and-ten

English

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Noun

five-and-ten (plural five-and-tens)

  1. (US) A five-and-dime.
    • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 121:
      Christmas toys—windup robots and air guns and painted trains—filled the front window of the five-and-ten.
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