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dinner lady

British  

noun

  1. a female cook or canteen worker in a school

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Joyce Binks, an 82-year-old retired dinner lady, was one of them and she came despite having lost her husband just three weeks ago.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2021

The Ballymena Daily says Kitty's community remembers her "her working as a dinner lady at St. Louis School."

From Fox News Jun. 7, 2020

Melville, a former dinner lady, had come into contact with Leith on an internet forum called AYI, an earlier hearing was told.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2015

Where else do you hang out with a barrister, a dinner lady, a teenage mum and an actress?

From The Guardian May 31, 2014

"All that money and he's still got hair like a dinner lady," spat Boy George of Elton John, who appeared to confront his receding hairline with various fancy treatments over the years.

From The Guardian Jan. 5, 2011

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