Meaning of coffee shop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
2. A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
3. Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”).
   Malaysia, Singapore
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop.

Examples

“He went to the nearby coffee shop with his friends.”

“"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 [...].”

“Over time, the concern is that the cafe’s role as the heart of Parisian society will become obsolete, Mr. Fontaine said, as the younger generation turns to the coffee shop.”

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