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breakfast, lunch and dinner

breakfast, lunch and dinner phrase: a group of three bedbug bites appearing together.

Phrase

breakfast, lunch and dinner

  1. (informal) A group of three bedbug bites appearing together.
    • It is common for bedbugs to inflict a series of bites in a row ("breakfast, lunch, and dinner").2011, William D. James, Dirk Elston, Timothy Berger, Andrew's Diseases of the Skin E-Book: Clinical Dermatology, page 435
    • The typical clinical finding is several erythematous papules or urticarial lesions grouped together. Often three appear in a row (breakfast, lunch and dinner), but of course the bedbug does not keep count and both solitary bites and many lesions are common.2012, Otto Braun-Falco, Gerd Plewig, Helmut Heinrich Wolff, Walter H.C. Burgdorf, Dermatology, second edition, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 364

Forms of breakfast, lunch and dinner

alternative formbreakfast, lunch, and dinner

Questions about breakfast, lunch and dinner

What does breakfast, lunch and dinner mean?
Breakfast, lunch and dinner means a group of three bedbug bites appearing together.
What part of speech is breakfast, lunch and dinner?
Breakfast, lunch and dinner is a phrase.

Words near breakfast, lunch and dinner in the dictionary

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  6. breakfast, lunch and dinner
  7. breakfast, lunch, and dinner
  8. breakfast-equipage
  9. breakfast-mate
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