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flea market

noun

  1. a market, often outdoors, consisting of a number of individual stalls selling old or used articles, curios and antiques, cut-rate merchandise, etc.


flea market

noun

  1. an open-air market selling cheap and often second-hand goods


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Other Words From

  • flea-market·er flea-mar·ket·eer noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of flea market1

First recorded in 1920–25

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Idioms and Phrases

A market, usually held outdoors, where used goods and antiques are sold. For example, We picked up half of our furniture at flea markets . The term is a direct translation of the French marché aux puces and presumably implies that some of the used clothes and furniture might be flea-infested. [1920s]

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Example Sentences

Mena-Barreno denied wrongdoing to authorities, saying he buys bikes online from sites such as Craigslist and OfferUp and then sells them at a flea market in El Paso.

Out now on Light in the Attic Records, “Another Side” is now the first public product of that incredible flea market find.

Exhausted, tempers began to flare so we stopped at a flea market-turned-shelter that was taking in evacuees.

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He began as a teenage salesman, setting up a stand on a sidewalk flea market in Chicago, where he sold kitchen gadgets — the Chop-O-Matic and Veg-O-Matic, among them — invented by his father.

In some cases, the land is used for swap meets and flea markets when movies aren’t being shown.

I grew up in New York and there was a Caldor that had a Sunday flea market.

Six months after he arrived in Paris, he found another high-wheeled bicycle in a flea market and bought that too.

With its famous flea market and cute shops, Eastern Market has always been a popular stop on the weekend.

It's a very cozy place, and the dining area is furnished with flea-market furniture from the '60s and '70s.

A deputy said, jerking his thumb over his shoulder at the flea market and the ride.

The third was outside of San Francisco, in a gigantic ghost-mall that was already being used as a flea-market.

He bossed a low-budget tourist attraction and he ran a pirate flea-market.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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