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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
Recent Examples on the Web
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
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Word History
First Known Use
1964, in the meaning defined above
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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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