| inexpensive, machine-pressed, usually translucent glassware, including dishware, vases, etc., mass-produced in the U.S. from the late 1920s to the 1940s and often used as giveaways, as to induce customers to buy goods or movie tickets. |
| Depression glass n. Machine-pressed, tinted glassware mass-produced during the 1920s and 1930s. [From its being manufactured during the Depression.] |