dairy lunch

English

Noun

dairy lunch (plural dairy lunches)

  1. (historical, US) An establishment serving light, ready-made food and drink, such as sandwiches, soup, and donuts. Mostly limited to early 20th century US.
    He wolfed down a sandwich and coffee from the dairy lunch across the street before hurrying back to work.
    • 1916 March 11, “Sense and Nonsense”, in Saturday Evening Post‎:
      A newspaper man ran across the street the other day to a dairy lunch. He was in a hurry. He leaned against the marble counter and ordered a lamb stew.
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