breakfast

  • 21breakfast — n 1. British ketamine. The drug is also nicknamed Special K after a breakfast cereal, hence this play on words. ► ...you got any breakfast? ...Man, you look like you already had yours... (Recorded, art student, UK, 2002) 2. See dingo s breakfast; …

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  • 22breakfast — breakfaster, n. breakfastless, adj. /brek feuhst/, n. 1. the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 A.M. 2. the food eaten at the first meal of the day: a breakfast of bacon and eggs. v.i. 3. to eat breakfast: He… …

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  • 23breakfast — noun Date: 15th century 1. the first meal of the day especially when taken in the morning 2. the food prepared for a breakfast < eat your breakfast > • breakfast verb • breakfaster noun …

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  • 24breakfast — break·fast || brekfÉ™st n. first meal of the day, morning meal v. eat breakfast, eat a morning meal; serve breakfast; provide breakfast …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 25breakfast — 1. noun /ˈbɹɛkfəst/ a) The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning. We serve breakfast all day. b) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages …

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  • 26breakfast — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. morning meal, first meal of the day, early meal, brunch, continental breakfast, English breakfast, petit d?jeuner (French), breaking the fast; see also meal …

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  • 27breakfast — [15] Breakfast is the first food one eats in the morning, thereby literally ‘breaking’ the night’s ‘fast’. The word is first recorded in a text of 1463: ‘Expenses in breakfast, xjd’. It is a lexicalization of the phrase ‘break one’s fast’, which&#8230; …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 28breakfast — noun a meal eaten in the morning, the first of the day. verb eat breakfast. Phrases have (or eat) someone for breakfast informal deal with or defeat someone with contemptuous ease. Derivatives breakfaster noun Origin ME: from break1 + …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 29breakfast*/*/ — [ˈbrekfəst] noun [C/U] the first meal that you have in the morning What did you have for breakfast this morning?[/ex] breakfast cereal[/ex] …

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  • 30breakfast — break•fast [[t]ˈbrɛk fəst[/t]] n. 1) the first meal of the day; morning meal 2) to eat breakfast 3) to supply with breakfast • Etymology: 1425–75 break′fast•er, n …

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