Counterful
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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