Meaning of tearoom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A café which serves tea, usually with light food.
2. A public lavatory, especially (US, gay slang, dated) as a meeting place for gay men.
   euphemistic, slang
3. A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.
   Australia

Equivalents

Examples

“At Rannoch, the platforms were rebuilt. Although the station tearoom couldn't be reached by rail during the closure, which started on October 5, it did help feed and sustain the workforce.”

“I'm deathly afraid of the tearooms though, John. Some of my best friends have been entrapped and busted by the fuzz.”

“I had run into Grant in a tea-room—The busy main floor crapper—a few months earlier.”

“The euphemistically named "tea room" has been used in sexual subcultures among men who have sex with men (MSM) to describe public sex environments, usually public toilets, where men meet other men in sexual interaction... The term itself might be outdated...”

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