Definitions for dime-store

dime-store dime store

Dime-Store is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 599 anagrams from letters in dime-store (-deeimorst).

Definitions for dime-store

noun

  1. five-and-ten (def 1).
  2. Bowling. a split in which the five and ten pins remain standing.

Origin of dime-store

An Americanism dating back to 1925-30

Examples for dime-store

Such equipment was now available in what might once have been called a dime store—but with another price-level.

Yes, we shopped at a dime store immediately adjacent, or in the same shopping center as the driver's license bureau.

I have the sort of paper you buy at the dime store to wrap packages, about 36 inches long, coming in a roll.

We are the go-go generation, the dime store sociologists have proclaimed, reacting against our “tune in, drop out” parents.

Word Value for dime-store
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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