coffee shop

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

coffee +‎ shop

Noun

coffee shop (plural coffee shops)

  1. 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 [...].
  2. A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee,‎ shop. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Descendants
  • → Dutch: coffeeshop
  • → Korean: 커피숍 (keopisyop)

Translations
café — see café

See also
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