Definition of "dime store" []

• See five-and-ten. (noun)

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• "Kennan's memory of that Christmas season would al­ways be linked with the musty, dimly lit basement of Reardon's Department Store, a faded and failing five and dime store on Water Street, where he had shopped for his fourth graders 'presents late one evening."