suppermate

From supper +‎ -mate.

suppermate (plural suppermates)

1. A friend or colleague with whom one eats supper.

   Coordinate terms: dinnermate, lunchmate

   • 1968 March 9, Jack O’Brian, “New York’s Voice of Broadway”, in The Pocono Record, volume 79, number 275, Stroudsburg, Pa., page 6, column 3:

     Ingrid Bergman’s suppermate at “21” was Francis Robinson of The Met Opera.

   • 1984, Lorenzo W[ilson] Milam, The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues, San Diego, Calif.: Mho & Mho Works, →ISBN, page 197:

     Marcellina, another suppermate, is also thirteen but looks to be eleven.

   • 1988 June, The Archon, page 36, column 2:

     Since all the suppermates were interested businessmen and investors, they unanimously championed Ben Goodspeed’s book, the Tao Jones Averages on whole-brained investing.

   • 1991, Julie Scott Meisami, transl., The Sea of Precious Virtues (Baḥr al-Favāʼid): A Medieval Islamic Mirror for Princes, Salt Lake City, Ut.: University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 156:

     Third, respect your suppermate, so as not to eat more than he, for that is unlawful.

   • 2008, Aïda Rogers, “Rockaway Athletic Club, Columbia, Richland County”, in Stop Where the Parking Lot’s Full: A Collection of Sandlapper’s Favorite Restaurants, Sandlapper Society, Inc., →ISBN, page 132:

     Fat Tuesday. What a great day to be at Rockaway Athletic Club, that bastion of cold beer, good food, and loud music in Columbia. What am I giving up for Lent? Guilt. That’s why I had no qualms about ordering the famous Pimento Cheese Fries with jalapeños and dominating them at our table of four. My suppermates had ditched their guilt, too; but by the time we were through, our pants were tight and we were happy.

   • 2010, Vanitha Sankaran, Watermark, Avon, →ISBN, page 77:

     Across from Auda, a large man with his nose buried in his ale cup ignored his suppermates.