Hammerbarn

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(slang, chiefly, _, Australia, neologism) A store selling goods for home improvement and DIY, and household hardware.

I'm replacing my living room carpet with tile. I think I might be able to replace the shabby bathroom linoleum too.Off to Hammerbarn to look at bathroom tile.

Origin: From Hammerbarn, a fictional hardware retail store that appears in the Australian children's TV series Bluey, first introduced in the second episode of the second season which first aired in Australia on 18 March 2020. Itself from , likely to evoke the idea of a large warehouse in which tools and hardware supplies are sold. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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