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.
   • "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70

   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.