coffee shop
English
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editcoffee shop (plural coffee shops)
- A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
- Synonyms: café, coffeehouse, diner
- 2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:
- "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
- A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
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edit- → Dutch: coffeeshop
- → Korean: 커피숍 (keopisyop)
Translations
editcafé — see café