coffee

Less common meanings

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   end of mealnouncountable or uncountable

   The last part of a meal, when coffee is brought out.

   The speeches began at coffee, just after the dessert plates were taken away.

   By the time we got to coffee, the little kids were asleep.

   UsageSay stay for coffee.

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   brown-tonedadjective

   Light brown in color, like coffee mixed with milk.

   He bought a coffee sweater to wear in winter.

   The blanket was a soft coffee shade.

   Similartan, beige, taupe, fawn

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   nouncountable or uncountable

   A light brown color, like coffee with milk in it.

   Like the light brown of milky tea or weak hot chocolate.

   She painted the walls a soft coffee, somewhere between tan and brown.

   The sofa came in coffee, cream, and gray.

   Similartan, beige, taupe, fawn, latte

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   verbintransitive

   To drink coffee, or to have a cup of it.

   He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.

   1965, Thea Astley, The Slow NativesHere, coffeed means drank coffee.

   We sat and coffee’d with people in the living room.

   1973, Experiences in Rural Mental Health: Developing Citizen ParticipationHere, coffee'd means drank coffee together.

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   serveverbtransitive

   To give coffee to someone.

   You all fed me and coffee’d me and warmed me up.

   2014, Steve Ulfelder, Wolverine BrosHere, coffee'd means gave me coffee to drink.

   There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.

   1929, Howard W[allace] Peak, A Ranger of Commerce or 52 Years on the RoadHere, coffeed means given or served coffee.

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