dairy lunch
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]dairy lunch (plural dairy lunches)
- (historical, US) An establishment serving light, ready-made food and drink, such as sandwiches, soup, and donuts. Mostly limited to early 20th century US.
- He wolfed down a sandwich and coffee from the dairy lunch across the street before hurrying back to work.
- 1916 March 11, “Sense and Nonsense”, in Saturday Evening Post[1]:
- A newspaper man ran across the street the other day to a dairy lunch. He was in a hurry. He leaned against the marble counter and ordered a lamb stew.