lunchroom
Americannoun
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lunchrooms
plural
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a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
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a luncheonette.
noun
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Origin of lunchroom
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He’s fine when his background characters are just palling around the lunchroom, but the POV approach is hard on his leads, even talents like Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Elwood’s grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024
At Mankato West High School, years before he joined the political scene, a young Mr Walz taught geography and social studies, supervised the lunchroom and coached the football team.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2024
“This is the topic of every water-cooler conversation and every lunchroom conversation,” said State Representative Spencer Roach, a North Fort Myers Republican.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
It may be your bridge club, it may be your dinner table, it may be the lunchroom break conversation that you have.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2023
I raced past them with my head down, past Ms. Wardak, not even caring that I hadn’t gone to the lunchroom first, the way we were supposed to.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
But inside are sprawling boardrooms, snack-filled lunchrooms and state of art high-ceiling labs with 38,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
Walking that day past my old school, now greatly enlarged with lunchrooms, playgrounds, libraries and computers, I wondered about the changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2018
Unfortunately, though, the same attitude that led to gamers being bullied in the hallways of high school lunchrooms has not entirely left our culture.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2018
In those days, few alternatives existed for students turned off by bell schedules, crowded lunchrooms and teen drama.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2018
The big hotels were far too costly but there were several pretty lunchrooms, "The Bird of Paradise," "The London Tearoom," and, most popular of all, "The Ladies Exchange."
From Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris
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