simple past tense and past participle of counter

plural of Counter

plural of counterful

Enough to fill a counter.

(Britain, Ireland, colloquial) In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.

Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).

Alternative spelling of counterculture

Alternative spelling of counterproductive

Illicit, obtained or sold furtively.

(microbiology) laboratory equipment used to count colonies of bacteria, or other microorganisms, growing on agar, usually in a Petri dish.