Meaning of caff | Babel Free

Definitions

café, cafeteria.

Britain, Ireland, slang

Examples

“No one in Mariposa had ever seen anything like⟳ the caff. All down the side of it were the grill fires, with great pewter dish covers that went up and down on a chain, […]; you could watch⟳ a buckwheat pancake whirled into existence under your eyes and see⟳ fowls' legs devilled, peppered, grilled, and tormented till they lost all semblance of the original Mariposa chicken.”

“After working his way up in restaurant kitchens, Nick's father bought a caff off the Walworth Road, and named it The Bosphorus in homage to a cultural homeland elsewhere.”

“McCormack dressed in his second-best suit⟳ and walked down the hill to a caff on Dumbarton Road.”

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