( also five-and-ten-cent store , five-and-dime , dime store ) n [ C ] ( AmE old use )
a type of large shop/store in the US selling cheap goods. The first of them were opened in 1879 by F W Woolworth and for many years they sold everything at a price of either five cents or ten cents. The last 400 five-and-tens in the US closed in 1997.