greasy spoon
11greasy spoon — {n.}, {informal} Any small, inexpensive restaurant patronized by workers or people in a hurry; a place not noted for its excellence of cuisine or its decor. * /I won t have time to eat lunch at the club today; I ll just grab a sandwich at the… …
12greasy spoon — {n.}, {informal} Any small, inexpensive restaurant patronized by workers or people in a hurry; a place not noted for its excellence of cuisine or its decor. * /I won t have time to eat lunch at the club today; I ll just grab a sandwich at the… …
13greasy spoon — noun a small restaurant specializing in short order fried foods • Hypernyms: ↑restaurant, ↑eating house, ↑eating place, ↑eatery * * * noun, pl ⋯ spoons [count] informal : a small and cheap restaurant We ate at some greasy spoon near the bus… …
14greasy spoon — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms greasy spoon : singular greasy spoon plural greasy spoons informal a small café that serves cheap greasy food …
15greasy spoon — n. an untidy and unappetizing diner or restaurant. □ Let’s eat at the greasy spoon over on Maple. The food is gross, but the people watching is good. □ I wouldn’t be caught dead in a greasy spoon like that …
16greasy spoon — small cafe that serves greasy food I eat at the greasy spoon. The food ain t great, but it s cheap …
17greasy spoon — noun An inexpensive diner or other informal restaurant, especially one specializing in frying or grilling. We found a good little greasy spoon down a side street …
18greasy\ spoon — noun informal Any small, inexpensive restaurant patronized by workers or people in a hurry; a place not noted for its excellence of cuisine or its decor. I won t have time to eat lunch at the club today; I ll just grab a sandwich at the local… …
19greasy spoon — n a transport cafe, diner or other cheap restaurant. A mildly derogatory but gen erally affectionate term for the kind of eating place where most, if not all, of the hot dishes are fried in animal fat. The expression seems to have origi nated in… …
20greasy spoon — a small, cheap eating place with basic but not so good food We had to go to a greasy spoon for breakfast as all the other restaurants were closed …
