What is K Mart?

Derogatory adjective describing objects of poor quality or shabby appearance, or untidy people.
Originally used in primary schools in Wagga Wagga, a city in South Western NSW, Australia in the late 1970s and early 80s. To my knowledge, it has never spread, but is a nice little piece of juvenile social history.

"His haircut is just so K-Mart"

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K Mart - video

K Mart - what is it?

A department store that sells, among other items, notoriously unfashionable/poor quality clothing. All clothing brands are licensed exclusively to K-Mart (i.e. Route 66) and quite unsuccessfully attempt to mimic current trends.

Associated with a demographic that is either low income, cheap by choice, or fashionably inept.

Popular Kid: "John's such a dork, saying those lameass sneakers with no logo are real skate shoes. He probably got them at K-Mart."

Social Reject: "My mom's gonna take me to K-Mart tomorrow to get some cool t-shirts."

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What does "K Mart" mean?

A retail store, unlike Walmart, who understands that music censorship is Un-American and gives people the right to choose from a good selection of cheap, unedited CDs.

Man, Walmart sucks ass yo. Let's check out the CDs at K mart where we can buy our PA CDs, yo.

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K Mart - what does it mean?

Something cheap and unwanted.

Dude! That car is so k-mart. I would never ride in that thing

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K Mart - meaning

A deptmartent store getting their asses handed to them, by Wal-Mart and Target.

I hate K-Mart.

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K Mart - definition

A once powerful mass merchandiser that was brought to its knees by Wal-Mart and Target - now is in bankrupcy. Used to be a fairly good store in the 70's and 80's but the corporation never updated stores or merchandise. Prices were high, employees were always jerks and the quality of K-Mart clothing was and still is horrible.