five-and-ten

English

Alternative forms

• five and ten

Noun

five-and-ten (plural five-and-tens)

1. (US) A five-and-dime.
   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 121:

     Christmas toys—windup robots and air guns and painted trains—filled the front window of the five-and-ten.