coffee shop
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coffee shop
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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Salinas police officers were inside Brewjee, a Main Street coffee shop, on Sunday morning getting their morning coffee when they heard calls for help nearby, according to a police department social media post.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Loren Becker, a semi-retired registered nurse, had ducked into the Black Goose coffee shop in Union, Kentucky, to escape a downpour on Saturday morning.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
The quality, he says over a bottle of San Pellegrino at a coffee shop in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant on a sunny April afternoon, is “subconscious.”
From Salon • May 15, 2026
You may discover a cute coffee shop or yoga studio nearby that makes you even happier you chose this location.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
I’ve never been in a coffee shop like this, and no one ever wants to get to know me.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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