snack bar

noun

1. a lunchroom or restaurant where light meals are sold.

snack bar

noun

1. a place where light meals or snacks can be obtained, often with a self-service system

Word History and Origins

Origin of snack bar¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

I keep looking for unique things offered at high school snack bars.

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Mars, which also makes M&Ms, Snickers and Kind snack bars, did not explain why it had made the decision, which was first reported by Bloomberg.

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Julianne Ponan, whose firm Creative Nature makes vegan snack bars, exports to 18 countries but only a small proportion goes to the EU.

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We only had a snack bar with us, and we had left a couple days’ worth of food in the car.

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Her goal is to earn enough in two or three months to open a snack bar on her return, though she realises she may not succeed.

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