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Woolworth's

  1. A five-and-dime store in the United States.
  2. 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.
  3. (poker slang) Two pair fives and tens.
  4. (poker slang) A five and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

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