Automat
Americannoun
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Also called: vending machine. a machine that automatically dispenses goods, such as cigarettes, when money is inserted
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an area or room, sometimes having restaurant facilities, where food and other goods are supplied from vending machines
Example Sentences
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Apart from the tellingly-named ghost kitchens, fast-food companies, the successors of the original Automat, seem eager to find out.
From Salon • Jan. 22, 2024
It was to be the Automat of the intelligence community, “with its doors never tightly closed and with customers going in and out, day and night,” according to a CIA history.
From Washington Post • May 28, 2022
This story has been updated to reflect the closure of Automat Kitchen in Jersey City.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022
Eventually I made a short film in a nonfiction media class, a profile about Steve Stollman, the Automat collector.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022
Not the heat that glued her skin to the plastic chair, not an outing to the beach, not even a movie followed by a beef pot pie at the Automat.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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