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lunch counter
noun
- a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- a luncheonette.
Word History and Origins
Origin of lunch counter1
Example Sentences
But a lunch counter owner was required under the new laws to serve anyone, of any race, who walked in and sat down.
Shortly before the crusade, the teenager had been arrested for participating in a lunch-counter sit-in and jailed for five days.
The only downtown lunch counter where black people had sat in this century was at Union Station.
And whilst he helt her back, they packed me acrosst the platform and up-stairs into one of them rooms over the lunch-counter.
He claims that he was doped; that somebody dropped something into his supper coffee at the station lunch counter.
Taking his seat on one of the high stools at the lunch counter, he ordered some supper.
"You better take him in a cup of hot coffee, Sinkers," suggested Andy to the lunch-counter boy.
The odd jobs about saloons which are usually done for beer-payment he performed under the inspiration of the free-lunch counter.
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