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store-bought

[ stawr-bawt, stohr- ]

adjective

, Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. commercially made rather than homemade.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of store-bought1

First recorded in 1900–05

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Example Sentences

Gambling, girls; you could buy a pint of moonshine for a dime, store-bought whiskey for a quarter.

Sally ate it with maple syrup; at home we ate the store-bought kind with ketchup.

The savings over comparable store-bought shaving systems ranges from 30 to 60 percent.

Power failures, crumbling roads and scarcity of store bought goods from butter to toilet paper are rampant.

It also offered yet another chance to discuss the politics of black hair, store bought or otherwise.

On de way from Columbia dey had lots of store-bought things to eat.

In 1928 I traded a pair of store-bought boots to my uncle Neville Dobie for his copy of this book.

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