Examples of 'five-and-dime' in a sentence
Meaning of "five-and-dime"
Five-and-dime is a noun used to describe a store that sells inexpensive items, typically costing five or ten cents, hence the name
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- A store selling inexpensive items.
- Two pair, composed of fives and tens.
- A five and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- The 5th Battalion 10th Marines, a US artillery battalion.
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Sebastian Spering Kresge opened a five-and-dime store in downtown Detroit bearing his name.
Public displays of affection at the five-and-dime.
I picked it up at the Five-and-Dime last night on my way back.
Warrant came through on the old five-and-dime.
Don't give me no five-and-dime costume of a medicine man or a witch doctor.
We will just barge in like it was a goddamn five-and-dime.
You stole more candy from the five-and-dime than anyone in, like, the history of stealing.
Are not going to get that lake house of yours doing five-and-dime stickups.
There is a five-and-dime store up ahead . There you turn to other way.
I am getting uncomfortable with all this five-and-dime profiling.
Nothing five-and-dime for our Mr. Hughes . Nothing like tonight has ever been seen before.
They sell this costume at every five-and-dime in the state.
Get you a box of them chocolate-covered cherries. I will just stop at the nearest five-and-dime.
They sell this costumeat every five-and-dime in the state.
At the five-and-dime last night.
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Worked the night shift with bingo at the five-and-dime.
Public displays of affection at the five-and-dime And all that . No mystery there.
Someone you really want to see is coming to the five-and-dime.
I am getting uncomfortable with all this five-and-dime profiling . It 's trivialising a very nasty business.
So you saved all your pennies from your job at the local five-and-dime.
That coffee shop there was a five-and-dime where Tim Barnes bought his notebook.
Are not gonna get that lake house of yours doing five-and-dime stickups.
There is a five-and-dime store up ahead.
When your toes are tapping, anything can happen down at the old Five-And-Dime.
Do you think i am worried about these five-and-dime valentinos down here?
They seemed happy at first -- Public displays of affection at the five-and-dime.
He was in a five-and-dime photo machine.
They seemed happy at first… public displays of affection at the five-and-dime and all that.
Let us hit the five-and-dime on the way home.
His guts are laying roadside outside the Hawley five-and-dime.
You expect me to become a five-and-dime character like you?
My After-School oasis gets the hopeless cases Hopping and a-Bopping to the Five-And-Dime band.
And where was this five-and-dime you found the wallet at?
And you scowl and throw me on the ground like a five-and-dime Frankenstein.
The kind sold at the five-and-dime store . he had used a tin sheriff 's badge.
You okay? They sell this costume at every five-and-dime in the state.
Let us hit the five-and-dime on the way home . All right.
Public displays of affection at the five-and-dime And all that.
There is a five-and-dime store up ahead . There you turn to other way . Go straight, and then.
Maybe you should skip the five-and-dime this time.
Nothing five-and-dime for our Mr Hughes.
Your ideas on suicide are straight out of the five-and-dime of modern literature.
Do you know that five-and-dime on Charles street?
And I demonstrated shaving soap at the five-and-dime.
Planned to open a five-and-dime in Portland.
Sure . We will just barge in like it was a goddamn five-and-dime.
We had a run-in … recently in a five-and-dime store . Wait … There is something you ought to know.
Ladies dress up to go to the five-and-dime.
I heard he was making a living at the five-and-dime down in Centerville.
Just got out of Castlefield, where he 's serving a five-and-dime.
