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deskfast

/ˈdɛskfəst/

deskfast noun: breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.

Noun

deskfast (countable and uncountable, plural deskfasts)

  1. Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.
    • The default deskfast, the cereal bar, arrived in Britain from America in the late 1990s and within five years accounted for about a fifth of the total breakfast cereal market.2007, Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, Profile Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19

Forms of deskfast

pluraldeskfasts

Origin of deskfast

Blend of desk + breakfast.

Questions about deskfast

What does deskfast mean?
Deskfast means breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.
What part of speech is deskfast?
Deskfast is a noun.
How do you pronounce deskfast?
Deskfast is pronounced /ˈdɛskfəst/.
What is the plural of deskfast?
The plural of deskfast is deskfasts.

Words near deskfast in the dictionary

  1. deskercises
  2. deskew
  3. deskewed
  4. deskewing
  5. deskews
  6. deskfast
  7. deskfasts
  8. deskful
  9. deskfuls
  10. deskie
  11. deskies

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