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lunchroom

[ luhnch-room, -room ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
a luncheonette.

lunchroom

/ ˈlʌntʃˌruːm; -ˌrʊm /

a room where lunch is served or where students, employees, etc, may eat lunches they bring

First recorded in 1815–25; lunch + room

Then, a joke was rewriting the lunchroom menu to include "scrambled snails" and “fried ants.”

Sometimes, the kids would make fun of Mrs. Johnston in the lunchroom, that she cried in class and everything.

He waited until Graham had joined the office force in the mill lunchroom, and invented an errand back to Graham's office.

Then he shook himself and ran lightly to a little lunchroom on Amsterdam Avenue, where he enjoyed doughnuts and iced tea.

I told you about the little lunchroom where the readers from the library get their noonday feed.

They left the base lunchroom in silence, Bridget pouting a lip-edge more than Grant.

I can't remember who ate in the lunchroom, I mean the domino room, with me.

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