(UK, Irish) A shop selling household groceries, toys, etc, that are typically priced at a pound each.
(UK, Irish) A shop selling household groceries, toys, etc, that are typically priced at a pound each.
“If you buy a guinea pig from a pound shop, who owes who a shilling?”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(idiom, UK, Australia) A large, regular purchase of groceries; as opposed to ad hoc or impulse purchases.
(UK) A shop that sells pornographic material, sex toys, etc.; a sex shop.
(UK) A shop selling Polish and Eastern European groceries; typically a small high street corner shop that also sells everyday products.
(UK) A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of everyday items and is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.
(US, and, Canada) A retail store selling inexpensive items, especially one in which all items have a price of one dollar. (The latter type, whose name has the literal meaning, were formerly common and are now rare.).