garage sale

noun

: a sale of used household or personal articles (such as furniture, tools, or clothing) held on the seller's own premises

Examples of garage sale in a Sentence

prior to the move they held a garage sale to clear out all of their unwanted stuff
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Plot: Homer buys a transporter from a garage sale, using it to fetch beer and go to the bathroom with more efficiency. Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024 And when their family needed help scraping together enough money for their second month of rent, the Johnstons hosted a weekend garage sale at their Denver home. Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024 In the show’s fourth season, Gretchen Rossi had a garage sale, Keough went shopping with her daughter at H&M (oh, the shame!), and Tamra Judge had to fire her maid. Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024 Like most family record collections from those years, ours was diminished by the arrival of CDs, by garage sales and the occasional cull. Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for garage sale 

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of garage sale was in 1964

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“Garage sale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garage%20sale. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.

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garage sale

noun
: a sale of used household or personal items (as furniture or clothing) held at the seller's home

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