coffee shop

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noun

a small, usually inexpensive, restaurant where refreshments and light meals are served.

Origin of coffee shop

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

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Related Words for coffee shop

coffeehouse, tearoom

Examples from the Web for coffee shop

Contemporary Examples of coffee shop

In other enclaves, though, disagreements over the constitution took on the civil tone of coffee-shop discussions.
Egypt’s Tense Constitutional Referendum
Mike Giglio, Vivian Salama
December 16, 2012
Despite the coffee-shop certainty that surrounds such things, Senator Paul was not named after Ayn Rand.
Ron Paul's Nostalgic Appeal Shakes Up the 2012 Primaries
Rich Galen
December 17, 2011

Historical Examples of coffee shop

He looked in at the coffee-shop while I was eating my bit of food.
The Daffodil Mystery
Edgar Wallace
So he turned into a coffee-shop, and ordered coffee and a plate of beef.
Reginald Cruden
Talbot Baines Reed
He must not keep a coffee-shop or an inn, or be engaged in any trading whatever.
Life in a Railway Factory
Alfred Williams
Very different was the scene in the meeting-room behind the coffee-shop.
Demos
George Gissing
He went into the one coffee-shop in Salonika which served drinkable tea.
The Invaders
William Fitzgerald Jenkins

British Dictionary definitions for coffee shop

coffee shop

noun

a shop where coffee is sold or drunk

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