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coffee-and

coffee-and adjective: cheap, second-rate.

Adjective

coffee-and (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Cheap, second-rate.
    • “That coffee-an’ mac you got,” a French girl would crack to a straight one, and then it was on—hair came out by the handful, some bleached and some unbleached.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 23

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Origin of coffee-and

Ellipsis of coffee and cake.

Questions about coffee-and

What does coffee-and mean?
Coffee-and means cheap, second-rate.
What part of speech is coffee-and?
Coffee-and is an adjective.

Words near coffee-and in the dictionary

  1. coffee talks
  2. coffee tree
  3. coffee trees
  4. coffee up
  5. coffee'd
  6. coffee-and
  7. coffee-cup
  8. coffee-cups
  9. coffee-ed
  10. coffee-glass
  11. coffee-glasses

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