breakfast mate

Noun

breakfast-mate (plural breakfast-mates)

1. 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