Counterful

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Enough to fill a counter.

    "It was quite different from the gay but cheap cups and saucers which he had picked up at a five-and-ten-cent store, with infinite care, to find a single good design among counterfuls of trash."

Example

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"It was quite different from the gay but cheap cups and saucers which he had picked up at a five-and-ten-cent store, with infinite care, to find a single good design among counterfuls of trash."

Etymology

From counter + -ful.

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