coffee shop

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

Origin of coffee shop

1
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

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How to use coffee shop in a sentence

  • The boys dressed rapidly and hurried down to the hotel coffee shop.

    The Flaming Mountain | Harold Leland Goodwin
  • He looked in at the coffee-shop while I was eating my bit of food.

    The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar Wallace
  • I left the coffee shop later on for a place in the city, and saw nothing more of them for five years.

    The Observations of Henry | Jerome K. Jerome
  • What the pump is to the villager, so the coffee-shop is to the soldier of the New Army.

    The Amateur Army | Patrick MacGill
  • In the coffee-shop Wankin is invariably the centre of an interested group.

    The Amateur Army | Patrick MacGill

British Dictionary definitions for coffee shop

coffee shop

noun
  1. a shop where coffee is sold or drunk

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