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English
Proper noun
Woolworth's
- A five-and-dime store in the United States.
- A major high-street retail chain in the United Kingdom until the late 2000s.
- Synonym: (slang) Woolies
1989, The Advocate, numbers 515-521, page 28:We passed through an inner courtyard overladen with fake wrought-iron railings and accents badly in need of a paint job, evoking a kind of Woolworth's Vieux Carré.
2008, Angelica Goodden, Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile, page 98:[…] she thought that to allow the masses power would be to usher in a kind of Woolworth's world of vulgarity.
- (poker slang) Two pair fives and tens.
- (poker slang) A five and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
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