Meaning of Starbucks | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A widespread chain of coffee shops.
2. A coffee from Starbucks.
   countable, metonymically, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Each week, more than 33 million folks worldwide pass⟳ through a Starbucks. Plus, up to three Starbucks open⟳ every day somewhere on the globe.”

“Consider⟳ the Starbucks effect in the slogans written up recently in Fast Company magazine, where companies from various sectors now aspire to be the 'Starbucks of their respective industry': ...”

“On my three-block walk⟳ to the subway I noticed not one, not two, but four Starbucks, which was quite a high concentration of retail outlets even for the Queen of Caffeine.”

“Companies now want⟳ to turn⟳ themselves into “the Starbucks of the ham business” or “the Starbucks of fuel-injector makers.””

“Many people began to wonder⟳ whether we really needed two Starbucks directly across the street from each other.”

“Said the CEO of the nearly 500-plus store Caribou Coffee chain, “I got into the business because of what they [Starbucks] created.” In China, a small chain, Real Brewed Tea, aims to be “the Starbucks of tea.””

“Also returning is Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, an iced-drink topped with pumpkin cream cold foam and a dusting of pumpkin spice that Starbucks launched in 2019.”

“I swear⟳, if I had been drinking my Starbucks today it would have⟳ gone up my nose.”

“One part-time sociologist made an even more damning indictment: “Calling yourself a coffee nerd while drinking Starbucks is like⟳ calling yourself a beer nerd while drinking Budweiser.””

“I read⟳ it straight through while I drank three Starbucks.”

““Good, have⟳ they got coffee?” Lorraine nodded. “Yes, they’ve been in since about eight and brought Starbucks.””

“US Weekly’s regular photographic feature, “Stars: They’re Just Like⟳ Us!” which features celebrities engaged in such mundanities as pumping their own⟳ gas or drinking Starbucks, is a direct⟳ visual demonstration of this condescending simulated intimacy.”

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