The Collaborative International Dictionary
checkout counter \checkout counter\ n. a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases.
Syn: checkout.
WordNet
n. a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases [syn: checkout]
Usage examples of "checkout counter".
She was ready to head for the checkout counter when a tingle ran up her spine, and her head lifted.
She ignored the thick silence, for she had what she suspected was a highly accurate guess as to the subject of the conversation she'd interrupted, and approached the checkout counter where Mr.
I didn't pay that much attention, but I did notice the cane when he put it under his arm at the checkout counter.
As he was standing at a supermarket checkout counter, examining the computer and the file box of twenty software diskettes that had been removed from the back of the Range Rover, Roy remembered Mama.
She made an elaborate circuit around the other checkout counter and pushed her way through the dingy screen door with the Wonder Bread placard mounted in its upper half.
Kevin assured the both of us he'd taken them and the cupcakes off the shelf beside the checkout counter, and no, he hadn't examined the wrappers, but why would he do that?
Search as he would Rob never came to the circulation desk, or the checkout counter, or the reference librarian, or even an exit.
He had worked for Inside View long enough to know what it really was: mind-meatloaf that overweight hausfraus bought at the checkout counter and ate in front of the soap operas along with their favorite ice cream.
And when he did, it would be plastered across the tabloid display racks of every supermarket checkout counter in America - screaming at the patrons in unignorable sixteen-point type.
When I turned around, Philipe was chain-sawing through the checkout counter, having already knocked over the cash register.
The ginger-haired girl at the checkout counter looked familiar, and her eyes were red-rimmed from crying.
He carried the books to the checkout counter, offered, his most innocent smile.
She saw an older man reading the newspaper, a few people wandering the stacks, a woman with a toddler in tow at the checkout counter.
He carried the books to the checkout counter, offered his most innocent smile.