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coffee-shop

coffee-shop is the alternative form of coffee shop.

Meaning of coffee shop

Noun

coffee shop (plural coffee shops)

  1. A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
    • He went to the nearby coffee shop with his friends.
    Synonyms:
    café, coffeehouse, diner
  2. A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
  3. (Malaysia, Singapore) Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”).
    Synonyms:
    kopitiam
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop.

Forms of coffee-shop

pluralcoffee-shops

Questions about coffee-shop

What is coffee-shop the alternative form of?
Coffee-shop is the alternative form of coffee shop.

Words near coffee-shop in the dictionary

  1. coffee-potful
  2. coffee-pots
  3. coffee-potsful
  4. coffee-room
  5. coffee-rooms
  6. coffee-shop
  7. coffee-shops
  8. coffee-table book
  9. coffee-table books
  10. coffee-tini
  11. coffee-tinis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coffee-shop (page history and authors); coffee shop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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