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n. (dime store English)
Usage examples of "dime stores".
Woolworth dime stores were early innovators in this business, opening counters in most of their stores by 1910 and redefining them as an unique type of eatery.
He made the usual disclaimers regarding the swastikas and Iron Crosses ( That don't mean nothin, we buy that stuff in dime stores ), but just about the time the man seemed satisfied that it was all a rude put-on, Barger unloaded one of those jarring ad libs that have made him a favorite among Bay area newsmen.
On Saturday nights there were enchilada festivals on the top floor and conga lines dancing through the halls, but most of the week the doors were shut and people turned in early because they all worked, downtown in the dress lofts or the dime stores or in what was left of the defense industry in the valley or in Olvera Street selling junk jewelry.
Spending the day at it, limiting herself to a total expenditure of five dollars, and shopping only in dime stores.
Mexican restaurants, Adelita's, La Iguana de Oro, The Latin Strip, dime stores, pawn shops, radio and television repair, finance companies, Woolworth's, J.
Each photo was framed in a cheap glass-covered black frame, the type sold in dime stores.
The blank ones available at 10 cents a hundred in dime stores are all right.
But she had a young smell-fresh-ironed cotton and those sugary beginner cosmetics you find in dime stores-and that gave Maggie some reassurance.
We spent our days in prowling the dime stores, seeing picture shows and loafing.
The girls did not have regular summer jobs because their father refused to let them work in evil places such as dime stores and restaurants.
The courtroom is illuminated by the sort of hanging glass globes Jessie associates with the five-and-dime stores of her youth, and it is as sleepy as a grammar school classroom at the end of a winter day.