Woolworth's

English

Etymology

After the F. W. Woolworth Company, named for its founder, Frank Winfield Woolworth.

Proper noun

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.

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN