Meanings
- CanadaUSattributiveSynonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.
Near-synonym: ten-cent
3 more examples
Once, I thought I saw her, but it was only another girl, with an East German guy, in the same dollar-store dress she’d worn for my camera.
1995, Pico Iyer, Cuba and the Night, page 34Weave tracks askew, postpregnancy bellies pushing dollar-store seams, they look a hot mess.
2005, Ayana D. Byrd, Akiba Solomon, Naked: Black Women Bare All about Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, page 95We may cost a buck from the box but we don’t put out dollar store journalism.
2012 October 31, Rose DiManno, “Star introduces digital subscription because it costs big bucks to put out a decent paper”, in Toronto StarSynonyms: poor man's, Wish.com, Poundland, pound-shop, Tesco Value, BTEC, ten-cent, pound-shop
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of pound-shop: used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.
Origin
Cite this entry
dollar-store. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dollar-store
“dollar-store.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dollar-store. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dollar-store,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dollar-store.
Source: dollar-store on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.