Akademik

1. : a store selling articles priced at 5 or 10 cents

2. : a variety store selling inexpensive articles of merchandise

/fuyv"euhn ten"/, n.

1. Also called five-and-ten-cent store /fuyv"euhn ten"sent'/, five-and-dime /fuyv"euhn duym"/, dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.

2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a five-and-ten.

[1875-80]

five-and-ten variant UK US

Main entry: five-and-dime

five-and-ten «FYV uhn TEHN», noun.

U.S. Informal. a dime store.

five-and-ten [five-and-ten] (also five-and-ten-cent store ; five-and-dime ; dime store ; )noun (AmE old use)

a type of large shop/ ↑store in the US selling cheap goods. The first of them were opened in 1879 by F W Woolworth and for many years they sold everything at a price of either five cents or ten cents. The last 400 five-and-tens in the US closed in 1997.

See also: ↑dime store ▪ ↑five-and-dime