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bed and breakfasts

bed and breakfasts is the plural of bed and breakfast.

Meaning of bed and breakfast

Noun (1)

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

  1. A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.

Noun (2)

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

  1. A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.
    • The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d...[1978 April, Dan Wheeler, Tom Jansing, “Mugs away!”, in All Hands, page 11
    Synonyms:
    B&B
  2. The number 26.
    • Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include:[…] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.[2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68

Questions about bed and breakfasts

What is bed and breakfasts the plural of?
Bed and breakfasts is the plural of bed and breakfast.

Words near bed and breakfasts in the dictionary

  1. becuts
  2. becuz
  3. bed
  4. bed and board
  5. bed and breakfast
  6. bed and breakfasts
  7. bed bath
  8. bed baths
  9. bed blocker
  10. bed blockers
  11. bed blocking

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