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rummage sale
noun
- a sale of miscellaneous articles, old or new, as items contributed to raise money for charity, of unclaimed goods at a wharf or warehouse, or of odds and ends of merchandise at a shop.
rummage sale
noun
- a sale of miscellaneous articles, usually cheap and predominantly secondhand, in aid of charity Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)jumble sale
- a sale of unclaimed property or unsold stock
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of rummage sale1
Example Sentences
The Chicago Sports Spectacular, one of the country’s biggest and oldest card shows, is like a rummage sale from the days before eBay, but with way more money involved.
Bull remembers a conversation she had decades ago with a volunteer at a rummage sale at an Episcopal church in New Orleans where she was helping the church raise funds to build a labyrinth.
Everything inside the beach shack was tagged and priced, just like a rummage sale.
The Kelly family recently held a rummage sale in their front yard, and a white family walked over to introduce themselves.
The scene on a recent Friday at a Greenwich Village townhouse was like a cross between an art opening and a rummage sale.
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