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Over the counter

   Also found in: Medical, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.01 sec.
(Stock Exchanges) in an office; - said of business so done, as distinguished from that done at an exchange.
without a prescription; needing no prescription; - said of medicines that can be legally bought without a physician's prescription.

See also: Counter Counter



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With a firm, steady-eyed impudence, which seemed to hold back the threat of some abominable menace, he would proceed to sell over the counter some object looking obviously and scandalously not worth the money which passed in the transaction: a small cardboard box with apparently nothing inside, for instance, or one of those carefully closed yellow flimsy envelopes, or a soiled volume in paper covers with a promising title.
Trabb, taking down a roll of cloth, and tiding it out in a flowing manner over the counter, preparatory to getting his hand under it to show the gloss, "is a very sweet article.
 
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