swap meet

noun

1. a fair or bazaar where objects, usually secondhand, are bartered or sold.

Word History and Origins

Origin of swap meet¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

“I went to a couple swap meet sort of deals and talked to people,” he said.

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“Growing up in L.A., we always would have stuff from the swap meet,” says Tyler Adams, May’s longtime friend and collaborator turned manager.

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Kings Starter jacket, the ribbed corduroy from the house shoes her dad would buy at the swap meet, a quilted inside that draws from the iconographic element of a Chanel bag.

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“She was arrested twice at the Rose Bowl swap meet trying to sell Mark Bradford paintings. Often, she is seen walking around the museum with an empty martini glass in her hand, just licking works of art …. She once told Joni Mitchell that her music wasn’t good and that nothing good ever came from Canada.”

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I can count on my hands the number of times I had previously shopped at 99 Cents Only, and maybe even on one hand — I’m more of a swap meet kind of guy.

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