breakfast-mate
breakfast-mate noun: someone with whom one eats breakfast.
Noun
breakfast-mate (plural breakfast-mates)
- Someone with whom one eats breakfast.
- CIA Director George Tenet was eating breakfast at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington that morning. When he heard about the first plane, he immediately asked, “Was it an attack? It sounds like an attack,” and then told his breakfast-mate, “This is bin Laden. His fingerprints are all over it.”2005, Al Franken, The Truth (with Jokes), New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 36
- Elijah tore off a mouthful of toast, put the rest down, and looked at his breakfast-mates.2008, Mark J. Soppet, “One Last Haul”, in Eric T. Reynolds, editor, Return to Luna: The Winning Stories of the National Space Society’s 2008 Return to Luna Contest, Overland Park, Kan.: Hadley Rille...
Forms of breakfast-mate
| plural | breakfast-mates |
|---|---|
| alternative form | breakfast mate |
| alternative form | breakfastmate |
Origin of breakfast-mate
From breakfast + -mate.
Questions about breakfast-mate
- What does breakfast-mate mean?
- Breakfast-mate means someone with whom one eats breakfast.
- What part of speech is breakfast-mate?
- Breakfast-mate is a noun.
- What is the plural of breakfast-mate?
- The plural of breakfast-mate is breakfast-mates.
Words near breakfast-mate in the dictionary
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