coffee shop
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of coffee shop
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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But Mr. Franklyn-Miller has such a recessive air that he seems like he’d have difficulty commanding the average coffee shop.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026
“Where’s the coffee shop? Where’s the place for veterans to hang out? ... Where is the market? Where are the jobs?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
For Tran Trung Van, who manages a three-storey coffee shop, that means packing more patrons around inside tables and turning away those who want to smoke.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Come Sunday, Raman, wearing jeans and a chartreuse cardigan, was greeting bike riders at a Sawtelle coffee shop and speaking to a phone bank group at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
“All that self-confidence you see in them, it’s not as deep as they sometimes want you to think,” Volpe says as we sit one morning at a coffee shop near the University of Nebraska campus.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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