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View synonyms for lunch counter

lunch counter

noun

  1. a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
  2. a luncheonette.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lunch counter1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

Paschke sat at the packed lunch counter on a recent afternoon, waiting to pay.

James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement, training hundreds of youthful protesters in nonviolent tactics that made the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins a model for fighting racial inequality in the 1960s, has died.

Lawson was a pivotal figure in some of the most important campaigns of the movement, including the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, the first Freedom Ride and the social justice battles he led as pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in L.A.

He showed the students how to run an orderly sit-in by filling lunch counter seats in shifts.

Students staged a now-legendary 1960 sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, starting a movement that eventually spread across the South, mobilizing young Black people and their white allies against Jim Crow and demonstrating the power students held.

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