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名詞

dime store (plural dime stores)

1. (US) A store selling inexpensive items.

   Near-synonyms: ten-cent store, five-and-dime, dollar store

   • 1965, Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”, in Bringing It All Back Home:

     In the dime stores and bus stations / People talk of situations / Read books, repeat quotations / Draw conclusions on the wall

2. (historical) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dime,‎ store: a store selling things at one dime per item.